It is a nightmare, I use kmplayer in the meantime but that is not a great player although it is the only way I can get streams to play without dropping out after a minute or so.

Did you vote for the bugs link I posted on page one? I get the sinking feeling from some of the comments on that page that the devs do not believe this is a bug even though according to their guidelines this bug is appropriate enough to be considered 'major'.