[MPlayer-dev-eng] FTP - stream_ftp.c - plenty of bugs?

[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 where are some examples) 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, with the patch, 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 "utterly fucked" to "very buggy". 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