Comment 4 for bug 790216
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| Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis) wrote Re: network stream randomly stops playing | #4 |
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VLC does not stop at the slightest interruption. If there is transient packet loss, playback will be paused when the input buffers underflow, until the buffers refill to a reasonable level. This is a bit annoying, but it is unavoidable.
Otherwise, if the connection fails, then VLC gives up. This is the most basic network resiliency feature. When the server or the network is overloaded, the *last* thing to do is immediately retry. It would only make the problem worse. Web browsers, email agent, newsgroups agents, aggregators... don't reconnect automatically either. They just wait for the user to explicitly retry (or a fixed timer in some cases).
Admittedly, there is a small problem in VLC: it often silently stops in case of network failure, instead of printing an obnoxious modal error dialog. That is not a big deal though.