John,
This sounds kind of similar to the problem I had the other day. When I first set up AlienBBC, it would either say "connecting" and then not get anywhere, or it would connect for a couple of seconds, then would stop, then play a couple more seconds, then stop again.
It sounds like maybe you are somewhere between these 2 extremes - e.g. connecting - thinking the connection has dropped, then connecting again etc.
What fixed it for me was a couple of things.
Firstly, I didn't unzip the codecs to the right place. Or, more to the point, I unzipped them to the correct location but didn't realise they when I unzipped them they actually created a new folder beneath the "codecs" folder. Check in the codecs folder - there should be a bunch of files, but no subdirectories.
If that's all ok, then try installing LAME and setting some bandwidth limiting. Unzip LAME to the same folder as mplayer (e.g. \Program Files\SlimServer\server\Bin\MSWin32-x86-multi-thread) - I chose NOT to overwrite the file called "LICENCE". Then restart SS, and it should not pick up the fact that you have LAME and you should be able to set a limit (Player Settings>Audio). In fact, I've now got mine set to "no limit" but it seems that this doesn't matter so long as LAME can actually convert to MP3 for me.
While testing, it is also worth checking if mplayer can play a stream properly.
I had a very similar problem, but I use a Mac, and the solution looks to me (if mplayer is working) as if it must be different from what you need.
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Daniel Cohen
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