Comment 28 for bug 790216

There is a related problem that can be easily tested.
For french user, when I use VLC to watch a TV stream (freebox) on my bad connection,
quite often (for example when I browse a heavy web page) the video and sound stream will almost freeze : video gets blur and sound stops. Either the stream will completely stops or after a while (e.g. when the web page is fully loaded) image will be back but the sound stream will never recover. I have two solutions: stop the stream and reload or reload the video stream (by choosing Audio tracks -> disable then enable it again).

Before making VLC fully resilient against stream problem it may be interesting at first to make it resilient to sound stream loss by detecting that the sound stream is lost/empty.