[vlc-devel] Bring back freebox SD

[Edward Wang]

On 2013-12-23 07:16, Felix Paul Kühne <fkuehne at videolan.org> wrote:
> On 23.12.2013, at 13:09, Rafaël Carré<funman at videolan.org>  wrote:
>
>>> >>On 14.11.2013, at 20:07, Rafaël Carré<funman at videolan.org>  wrote:
>>> >>
>>>> >>>Can anyone test on a non-Free.fr ISP and tell me if we are blocking on the descriptor() ?
> So, we are blocking and VLC takes quite a big longer to launch as it waits for the connection to the freebox to time-out:
>
> [00007f953bcf8980] http access debug: http: server='mafreebox.freebox.fr' port=80 file='/freeboxtv/playlist.m3u'
> [00007f953bcf8980] core access debug: net: connecting to mafreebox.freebox.fr port 80
> [00007f953bcf8980] core access warning: connection timed out

As tested with wget this is a solid 128 seconds of blocking on the 
connection.

Is there not a way to prevent the blocking or have it load in the 
background?

Regards,
         Edward Wang