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Nope, there is no such functionality, you will have to build it yourself. Also 'keep stream open' will probably not work, VLC currently has no features that detect that it is actually 'doing nothing'. (check http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=23896 for a related problem) You would need to bu...

I am building a reliable stream server . My setup is: VLC gets MMS (WMV9) stream, converts it to MPEG4 and re-streams via http . It must me non interrupted http stream. However it is not the case, anytime when my parent mms stream interrupts - outbound http stream interrupts as well even with '--loo...