I have a multimedia file in Luminus which appears to have content (the progress bar says that it's >1h long), but the m3u8 playlist from citcastmedia.nus.edu.sg is actually empty:
#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-VERSION:3
#EXT-X-TARGETDURATION:10
#EXT-X-MEDIA-SEQUENCE:0
#EXT-X-ENDLIST
As a result, ffmpeg fails when it tries to transcode the stream, which causes fluminus_cli to retry silently, forever.