Play Audio from URL Fails

[ctb913]

I have been using VLC to subscribe to audio podcast RSS feeds. By doing so I have the ability to see all of the episodes in a feed and listen to any of those episodes by streaming the MP3 directly from the server. This typically works just fine. However, every time I try to listen to one of these podcasts, it plays for a while (usually 5-15 minutes) and then ends abruptly jumps to the next episode in the feed. I have tried a bunch of podcatchers and this particular podcast seems to trip all of them up. I was hoping that since VLC is highly configurable I could use it to fix the issue.

I suspect that issue is related to keeping the connection on the server open for an extended period of time. These podcast episodes tend to be an hour or two long, and if I understand the way they are buffered correctly, VLC keeps an open connection and trickles the file in to maintain a particular buffer ahead of the position currently being played (I am assuming-- correct me if I am wrong). Since I can use this same URL to download the MP3 file in a web browser without an issue, I think that configuring VLC to do the same thing would fix the issue...

So my question is exactly that: is there a way to set VLC to pull down the entire MP3 as fast as the server allows and store it as a temp file while it's being played RATHER than the way it is currently working (again, I assume) which is to pull only a little down at a time as it needs it to keep the buffer full.

Oh, I should mention that I have attempted to adjust all of the different buffer settings to see if it makes a difference and have had no luck in doing so. I've extended the network buffer to it's maximum, 60,000ms, and it has made absolutely no difference.

Thanks in advance for any help!

[Lotesdelere]

Looks like something similar to this:
https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=119002

We need the URL for testing purposes.

[ctb913]

We need the URL for testing purposes.

I just ran a test using this URL:
http://www.archive.org/download/FilmSac ... TheFly.mp3

Looks like something similar to this:
https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=119002

Not exactly. I ran it with messages. Here is a snippet:

To help you, we need messages, to completely understand what your problems is.
To fix this, please be sure before you start the playback to:

1. Open: Tools -> Messages.
2. Set Verbosity to 2
3. Start playback to reproduce your issue
4. Save text in a file or copy into clipboard
5. Then paste the full resulting log here between [​code]and[​/code] (or use Pastebin.com if it's too long)

Also don't forget to name your Operating System and provide the VLC media player version.

As expected, the server reset the connection and VLC jumps to the next item in the feed. I realize archive.org isn't known for it's blazing fast bandwidth and it simply might just be their policy to shut down a connection after a certain length of time (though this seems to happen at irregular intervals). I'd be interested to hear if you get the same result.

Thanks for responding!
Cass