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I recently built a new PC and put VLC on it to watch some network stream, I only get about 10 seconds of any network streams before VLC stops the stream. If I have multiple streams queued up it just hops to the next in the playlist. If I press play on the stream it starts again but only runs for around 10 seconds and stops again.

Some troubleshooting:
Uninstalled VLC and wiped all preferences then reinstalled.
Disabled firewall and A/V
Tested the streams on other PC's on the LAN and they work fine

I enabled debug and I get the following:
avcodec: Using D3D11VA (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080, vendor 10de(NVIDIA), device 2216, revision a1) for hardware decoding
main debug: Buffering 70%
main debug: Buffering 79%
main debug: Received first picture
ts debug: first packet for pid=17 cc=0xc
ts debug: SDTCallBack called
ts debug: * pid=18 listening for EIT
ts debug: * pid=20 listening for TDT
ts debug: new SDT ts_id=1 version=0 current_next=1 network_id=65281
ts debug: * service id=1 eit schedule=0 present=0 running=4 free_ca=0
ts debug: - type=1 provider=FFmpeg name=Service01
main debug: EsOutProgramMeta: number=1
main debug: Buffering 87%
main debug: Buffering 95%
main debug: Stream buffering done (1042 ms in 644 ms)
main debug: Decoder wait done in 0 ms
main debug: inserting 35852 zeroes
mmdevice debug: state changed: 1
main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor
prefetch debug: end of stream
ts debug: Can't read TS packet at 721992
main debug: EOF reached
main debug: waiting decoder fifos to empty
main debug: waiting decoder fifos to empty
main debug: waiting decoder fifos to empty
main debug: waiting decoder fifos to empty
main debug: waiting decoder fifos to empty
main debug: waiting decoder fifos to empty
main debug: waiting decoder fifos to empty
main debug: waiting decoder fifos to empty
main debug: waiting decoder fifos to empty
main debug: waiting decoder fifos to empty
main debug: waiting decoder fifos to empty
main debug: waiting decoder fifos to empty
main debug: waiting decoder fifos to empty
main debug: waiting decoder fifos to empty
main debug: waiting decoder fifos to empty
main debug: waiting decoder fifos to empty
main debug: waiting decoder fifos to empty
main debug: waiting decoder fifos to empty
main debug: killing decoder fourcc `h264'
main debug: removing module "avcodec"
main debug: saving a free vout
main debug: reusing provided vout
main debug: removing module "h264"
main debug: killing decoder fourcc `mp4a'
main debug: removing module "faad"
mmdevice debug: state changed: 0
wasapi debug: reset

Hello,

According to logs, VLC reaches END of STREAM. Could you try to reproduce with another player with the same PC ?

It look like an issue on your PC...

What other player can I use for network stream? Ive only ever used VLC

Please open Tools -> Messages (set Verbosity to 2) before you start the playback, and then paste the full resulting log here or on Pastebin.com if it's too long.

We do need the FULL log, from the very beginning to the very end.

What other player can I use for network stream? Ive only ever used VLC

SMPlayer is a reasonably good alternative for testing purposes: https://www.smplayer.info/en/info

Issue happen with SMPlayer too, so it would seem to indicate the system is the problem not VLC

Full log (with some of the private urls edited), what can you tell from this?
https://pastebin.com/YJEQpgKz

Truncating the URLs doesn't help us because that's where the player fails, when redirecting.
From what I can see I think your links are protected by some token which can't propagate through the player.

Do you know of a link to a public stream I can test with?

This might help: https://hobbyistsoftware.com/vlcremote-test

The live streams I'm using are geolocked so I can't share those, but trust me I'm playing live streams every day with VLC and they work fine.
You can test with some Youtube live streams, like the NASA live stream which is playing fine with VLC:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21X5lGlDOfg

This is a 1080p live webcam located on Koh Samui, Thailand. It should be teeming with tourists by now, but due to low season at the moment, not many of them around right now. Still, it's useful for testing purposes. https://youtu.be/ZCiK4_BMzxk