I noticed on Friday that increasing the streaming buffer in VLC actually made the liveongamestream mms feed stop randomly dropping me. I mentioned it in IRC and it seemed to help a few people so I thought I'd make a post.
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The picture above basically explains what I did but in case it's unclear:
*Go to Media>>Open Network
*Click on the "Show more options" button.
*Adjust the "Caching" value.
The cache defaults to 300ms and putting it around 1s seemed to do the job for me but you should probably experiment for yourself.
I'm sure there are ways to do this in other players.