[streaming] How to detect failures?

[Christopher DeMarco]

Hey all... 

I'm running a bunch of  dumb Linux boxes which will  be showing video to
unwitting  passers-by.   I need to   know when  some hiccup server-side,
network-side or client-side causes  the feed to  go  down - in my  tests
this has   never happened (yet),  but   I need to   be prepared  for the
eventuality.  How should I go about this?  My  only idea at this point -
other than hacking source - is to watch my network usage and assume that
a sharp drop in traffic indicates an outage UNLESS it's accompanied by a
"magic cookie" from the server.  This actually sounds better the more I
think about it ;)

But do you guys have any suggestions on how I can ask vlc itself whether
it thinks its  udp input is hung?   In case it  matters, I'm running vlc
through the mozilla plugin; my platform is Linux/x86 and I've built from
source.

Thanks in advance...

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% You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike.
  Christopher DeMarco
  cdemarco at fastmail.fm
  +6013 389 5658
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