[MPlayer-dev-eng] FTP support troubles - stream_ftp.c patch

[iSteve]

Greetings,
  few days ago, I tryed to play a movie from ftp server, and 
unfortunately found out it is quite impossible. After some research, I 
found out that connection gets stalled, and I wrote this patch to make 
mplayer cope with stalled connections.

  However, it shouldn't stall at all in the first place. On two server 
(my in LAN and ftp.mplayerhq.hu) and for multiple people, it just 
stalled and then died off. Mozilla, wget nor lftp had any problems with 
it, so I guess this is a deeper problem in ftp support. Also, after 
approximately 20-40 minutes of playback, it seems to me that it doesn't 
matter where in the file you at the moment are, the connection dies off, 
stating it has trouble seeking within cache.

  This patch just recreates control connection in the case that 
connection gets stalled, and mplayer gets timeouted out of server.

  It would be great if someone would continue in fixing ftp support in 
mplayer, as I lack the skill and knowledge to do it fast and do it right 
(this is, as I said, a quick and ugly hack that, in my environment, 
changed ftp status from completely fucked to . I will however try to 
look deeper in this matter, especially why does it stall in the first 
connection but further connections are more or less ok (until that 
unfortunate terminate after 20-40 minutes of playback).

The patch: http://isteve.rulez.cz/others/stream_ftp.patch