Well, I asked this same question in that sub-forum but nobody responded after 3 days or so.
All I could glean from that topic was that people were successfully streaming http content from Russian sites, which would not interest me at all. Since nobody had mentioned streaming from any American sources, I thought I would ask
From what I read in that thread, no one is having luck with http streaming from VLC or from the web. I for one have been looking for a plugin that would allow me to stream Justin.tv in the same way as Youtube or flash support for the Az browser.