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If there is a problem, I can refresh the page programmatically, but is there a software that can monitor a live stream (that is being broadcast using jw player on a webpage) and can tell that stream has been disconnected (either from server or client side)?

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Most halfway-decent media players should be able to automatically detect a dropped connection and restart it. Use wireshark or look at the HTML source code of the page, find the stream address, and plug it into a self-respecting media player. Personally I use Rhythmbox on Linux, or, if you must, JRiver Media Center on Windows.

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any free alternative for Windows? It's a rtmp-stream. VLC player didn't reconnect after a dropped connection. – TPR Jul 11 '12 at 23:45
"RTMP stream" doesn't tell me a lot; depending on what the payload is, it may or may not be supported by any given player. I wasn't aware you were referring to an RTMP stream anyway, since you just said "stream" in your original post. VLC should work but apparently there's a bug about it that got marked invalid because the plugin was re-written... trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/1774 – allquixotic Jul 11 '12 at 23:55

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