Increase read timeout for appending files

[CueXXIII]

Expected behavior of the wanted feature

The current timeout for reading from appended files currently is hardcoded to 2s in stream/stream_file.c. This is too low for live streams downloaded with yt-dlp. Some of them come in chunks every 5s, and I even have seen 10s with twitch. Increasing the timeout to 1 minute would work by setting

#define MAX_RETRIES 300

Alternative behavior of the wanted feature

If there a reasons for having a timeout of 2s, the timeout value should be configurable. I don't think that should be neccessary.

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[Dudemanguy]

Does RETRY_TIMEOUT vs MAX_RETRIES make a difference for you? We could make them both configurable I guess.

[CueXXIII]

I think the result might be less smooth when i increase RETRY_TIMEOUT instead of MAX_RETRIES but I'll try it.

But if, there should be only one configuraton option I think, and that should be the retry time in seconds.

[kasper93]

related #15998