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Hi. I have VLC playing a multicast RTP AAC+ audio stream 24/7 from satellite. When occasional satellite rain fade & sun transit interference temporarily disrupts the stream, I am needing VLC to always keep trying to play that stream, so it returns to normal playing as soon as possible. Currently, VLC will occasionally get stuck recovering from rain fade, requiring the stop and play buttons to be pressed to get the stream playing again. I recall Winamp had a plugin that would automatically do that. Is there a fail safe easy way to force VLC to continually keep trying to restart the same stream? Thanks.

from experience, i think it's just how these things work. you could follow the feature/bug reporting/testing route and maybe you'll have such feature in a future vlc version.

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Hi, AJ1!
CloudStalker hasn't actually tested this feature, but, perhaps it may do what you're looking for(?)

• Open up VLC and go to Tools > Preferences (Ctrl+P)
• In the bottom-left corner under "Show settings" select "All"
• In the left pane, click the plus + next to "Input / Codecs" and click the plus + next to Access modules and click on "HTTP(S)"
• Tick the box "Auto re-connect"

According to the popup, this should attempt to 'reconnect to the stream in case of a sudden disconnect'

Hope this helps ya.

thank you both. It's a RTP multicast stream, so had assumed enabling HTTP auto reconnect would not work, but you never know, I'll give it a try!. thanks.

So AJ, did it work?

No Mark unfortunately it didn't. My stream is a RTP/UDP multicast stream, so maybe that's why. I have not logged a feature request though.