Live stream stuttering and disconnects

[unknownsoldierx]

Is there a way to deal with unreliable live streams? I have a couple feeds that sometimes start to freeze every few seconds. This is when I play them in my browser and when I have it sent via rtmpdump to VLC.

Also, these streams are not watchable in VLC. Besides the freezing, after a short time watching, VLC stops and rtmpdump says something like "ERROR: RTMP_ReadPacket, failed to read RTMP packet body. len: 4696".

I've tried adding "--live-caching" to the command, but it doesn't help any.

D:\Programs\rtmpdump\rtmpdump.exe -r rtmp://d.cdn.msnbclive.eu/edge -W http://msnbclive.eu/player.swf -y msnbc_live -v | "C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" --live-caching 60000 -

[svnpenn]

ffplay "rtmp://d.cdn.msnbclive.eu/edge/msnbc_live swfUrl=http://msnbclive.eu/player.swf live=1"

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[unknownsoldierx]

Video loaded and played for a few seconds, then froze and the audio went crazy.

ffplay version N-48675-g2672b2c Copyright (c) 2003-2013 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Jan  9 2013 23:28:36 with gcc 4.7.2 (GCC)
  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --disable-w32threads --enable-avisynth --e
nable-bzlib --enable-fontconfig --enable-frei0r --enable-gnutls --enable-libass --enable-l
ibbluray --enable-libcaca --enable-libfreetype --enable-libgsm --enable-libmp3lame --enabl
e-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --ena
ble-librtmp --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwol
ame --enable-libvo-aacenc --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --ena
ble-libx264 --enable-libxavs --enable-libxvid --enable-zlib --enable-filter=frei0r
  libavutil      52. 13.100 / 52. 13.100
  libavcodec     54. 86.100 / 54. 86.100
  libavformat    54. 59.107 / 54. 59.107
  libavdevice    54.  3.102 / 54.  3.102
  libavfilter     3. 32.100 /  3. 32.100
  libswscale      2.  1.103 /  2.  1.103
  libswresample   0. 17.102 /  0. 17.102
  libpostproc    52.  2.100 / 52.  2.100
Metadata:
  presetname            Custom
  creationdate          Tue Jan 08 04:52:54 2013
  videodevice           713x BDA Analog Capture
  framerate             25.00
  width                 768.00
  height                576.00
  videocodecid          avc1
  videodatarate         550.00
  avclevel              31.00
  avcprofile            66.00
  videokeyframe_frequency5.00
  audiodevice           Line In (VIA High Definition Audio)
  audiosamplerate       44100.00
  audiochannels         2.00
  audioinputvolume      79.00
  audiocodecid          .mp3
  audiodatarate         112.00
RTMP_ReadPacket, failed to read RTMP packet body. len: 4681
[flv @ 000000000203d0e0] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
Input #0, flv, from 'rtmp://d.cdn.msnbclive.eu/edge/msnbc_live swfUrl=http://msnbclive.eu/
player.swf live=1':
  Metadata:
    author          :
    copyright       :
    description     :
    keywords        :
    rating          :
    title           :
    presetname      : Custom
    creationdate    : Tue Jan 08 04:52:54 2013
                    :
    videodevice     : 713x BDA Analog Capture
    avclevel        : 31
    avcprofile      : 66
    videokeyframe_frequency: 5
    audiodevice     : Line In (VIA High Definition Audio)
    audiochannels   : 2
    audioinputvolume: 79
  Duration: N/A, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 675 kb/s
    Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (Baseline), yuv420p, 768x576 [SAR 1:1 DAR 4:3], 563 kb/s, 25
tbr, 1k tbn, 50 tbc
    Stream #0:1: Audio: mp3, 44100 Hz, stereo, s16p, 112 kb/s
Frame changed from size:0x0 to size:768x576 278KB sq=    0B f=0/0
WriteN, RTMP send error 10054 (46 bytes)q=    0KB sq=    0B f=115/80

[karlo2105]

Works fine.

rtmpdump -v -r "rtmp://d.cdn.msnbclive.eu/edge/msnbc_live" -W "http://msnbclive.eu/player.swf" | vlc -
RTMPDump v2.4 GIT-2012-11-09 (Compiled by KSV)
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
WARNING: You haven't specified an output file (-o filename), using stdout
Connecting ...
INFO: Connected...
Starting Live Stream
INFO: Metadata:
INFO:   author
INFO:   copyright
INFO:   description
INFO:   keywords
INFO:   rating
INFO:   title
INFO:   presetname              Custom
INFO:   creationdate            Tue Jan 08 04:52:54 2013
INFO:   videodevice             713x BDA Analog Capture
INFO:   framerate               25.00
INFO:   width                   768.00
INFO:   height                  576.00
INFO:   videocodecid            avc1
INFO:   videodatarate           550.00
INFO:   avclevel                31.00
INFO:   avcprofile              66.00
INFO:   videokeyframe_frequency 5.00
INFO:   audiodevice             Line In (VIA High Definition Audio)
INFO:   audiosamplerate         44100.00
INFO:   audiochannels           2.00
INFO:   audioinputvolume        79.00
INFO:   audiocodecid            .mp3
INFO:   audiodatarate           112.00
1555.207 kB / 11.18 sec
ERROR: Download: Failed writing, exiting!

[unknownsoldierx]

Your connection to the server is more stable. I'm not sure what that has to do with my problem. Also, I'm trying to play it through VLC.