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vlc 0.8.2 on Windows 2000

After listening to the Groove Salad aacplus stream for many hours, sound suddenly stops, cpu maxes out, and messages window shows "main error: recv failed (10054)" repeating over and over.

netstat shows open port, but remote addr is 0.0.0.0

Hitting stop and then start restarts playback.

I guess 'something' happens that causes the link to drop, but vlc doesn't seem to recognize that fact and just loops trying (and failing) to read data.

I hope the above is sufficient as a bug report - any questions?

Also, an addendum...

After an occurance of this looping error, I hit stop and play to restart stream playback. The *next* time it happens (during the same program invocation) the program window is unresponsive - I can't hit the stop button. If I then try to close the program, windows reports it as 'not responding' (even though it is consuming all cpu).

BTW, the aacPlus stream in question is
http://www.somafm.com/groovesalad48.pls

0.8.4 which is now in development fixes quite a few network related problems, which i think this might be one of. You can download a test build here:
http://www.videolan.org/~videolan

Thanks for the pointer. I downloaded

/build/win32/trunk-20050904-0126/vlc-0.8.4-svn20050904-win32.zip

Started playing the stream, let it run overnight, this morning it was looping again with the same "main error: recv failed (10054)" message.