Persistent reconnecting a stream

[ryanw]

Hi! Getting to explore the VLC command line a little, I'm tinkering with VLC on an ubuntu server instance (headless) playing out our stations web stream. I'd love to make the connection to a web stream indefinitely persistent if possible.

The command as it is now to get a picture:
cvlc https://stream.kdunradio.com/listen/kdu ... dsport/stl --aout=alsa --alsa-audio-device=hw:1,0 --network-caching=6000

I found the argument --http-reconnect=9999 but it doesn't seem to recognize it with this flavor.

Is there an equivalent, correction, or a preference file modification that would allow this? In testing, if the source icecast server is restarted the stream goes silent until manually restarted.

many thanks!
Ryan

[ryanw]

Anyone have experience to make stream reconnect indefinitely?