mplayer-ce takes an obscenely long time to load icecast stream

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Playing a local icecast stream causes mplayer-ce to freeze temporarily for 
a long time after buffering content.

I am playing an icecast2 (2.3.2) stream from a Linux PC (Ubuntu 10.04) with 
an ogg/vorbis stream. Plays fine using mplayer (and VLC) from other PCs on 
the network. When playing on mplayer-ce, the content buffers, and then it 
freezes at "Analysing stream..."
After several minutes (about 10, I think), it finally plays the music, 
sometimes. Other times, I get too impatient waiting for it, because it's 
probably completely frozen.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Add local icecast stream to mplayer-ce menu.
2. Start audio on server PC.
3. Start playing stream on Wii in mplayer-ce.

What version of the product are you using?
mplayer-ce 0.77
icecast 2.3.2
ubuntu 10.04 (server os)
xmms2 0.7 (audio source for icecast)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by good.evi...@gmail.com on 18 May 2010 at 1:38

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If you check out http://www.icecast.org/ and read what is written under updates 
for
stream directory handling, you'll see a likely explanation...

A stream is not registered with the directory until after the first minute has
passed. some streams have been stuck in a connect/disconnect loop.

Increase retry time on failure, if the stream add is rejected then it will be 
down to
a misconfiguration so a long retry delay is performed.

Both these entries in the update for version 2.3.2 could possibly be why things 
are
so slow...

Check your settings, test with wiimc or something else than this app...

Original comment by svi...@gmail.com on 18 May 2010 at 9:36