Comment 30 for bug 790216

Richard deserves another karma point for a work-around for a VLC-bug/and or/robustness problem that has been otherwise resolved since this thread was started, in 2011. In this case, it pays to read to the very end ...

His script does work quite well, and at last I'm able stream with minimal interruption and, when necessary, recovery.

When Richard's script goes into action, I see this explanation of the problem, in terminal:
  Cache empty, consider increasing -cache and/or -cache-min. [performance issue]

I'm intending to search for a VLC plugin that detects this condition and then duplicates the script's action.