No problems from my end. Sometimes the streams don't work but I realise that that's not mlbviewer's fault. They usually work if I try them again straight away.

So I noticed tonight that some games say "(Archived)" after them and others don't even though they're all finished.

Then I realized that that's printed when the game is in 'F' state and I added a 'CG' state for condensed game available.

So I've fixed this so both "Status: Final" and "Status: Final (Condensed Game Available)" display "(Archived)" next to them.

The fix has been committed to svn.

"there was an error in the player process"

sometimes i'm getting this error on condensed games. (mplayer can't start on CG but starts with all-game-long stream)

Revision: 77

I'm having a problem that may or may not be related to mlbviewer. I cannot used the 800k stream reliably. Up until now, I was on a DSL connection and simply assumed the problem was due to lag. Now I'm on a 6mbps cable connection which has rated download speeds of 20,000kbps on the Speakeasy speed test and the problem persists.

If I play an 800k stream with mplayer and buffer of 2048kbps, it plays fine for a few moments then starts skipping and studdering. Increasing the buffer size works for a time, then it begins skipping again. One issue I have been noticing is that when I increase the buffer size, it appears to spawn multiple, identical instances of mplayer. Here is the video_player line I am using:

mplayer -vo xv -zoom -osdlevel 1 -nojoystick -noconsolecontrols -cookies -softvol -slave -user-agent NSPlayer -nomouseinput -cache 16384 -fs

I have tried using vlc and xine as players as well. In both cases, the buffers empty after a moment or two and constantly have to rebuffer.

This is ridiculous! Can anyone help me get to the bottom of this?

"an error occcurred in locating the game stream
login was unsuccesful"

anyone else getting this? persistently?

i can watch games on the website so i think i still have an account...

Yep, me too. I have seen various session errors intermittently in the past, but tonight I get "Login was unsuccessful" every time.

Using revision 77, but with local edits to use pycurl instead of urllib2. That's been working fine for a couple of weeks though, so I don't think it's the cause.

I'm getting the same thing, I can't log in according to the terminal message. First time it has ever happened and something won't let me log in to "any" game.

The 'net up here is all screwed up today, so hopefully that is it but after seeing your complaint, I'm concerned. Surely they aren't this god-damn creepy. I know they are world class creeps ( MlB) but to this extent?

We should be hearing from StrayCat soon if it does have anything to do with MLB screwing with his and the other guy's creation.

I'm also getting the same message - "Login was unsuccessful"

For audio, you can use the 'firebug' hack without having to resort to using windows. I'm listening to the Sox-Tribe game right now but it is a pia after MlbViewer.

Turn on debug and see what spits out. You might also want to check the log after debug. Usually error in the player process means everything on my end completed okay, but the command to start your player didn't complete successfully.

If you have a "top_plays_player" entry in your config, comment that out. That will default to video_player command. If you don't have that entry, try using the test/mlbgameid.py script with the streamid. You can find the streamid by grepping your ~/.mlb/log file for the term "Querying" (or presumably "streamid" ;-) Though I purposely put in the word "Querying" for greppability.

The other thing...sometimes the media servers just flat out suck. If you get an error, try a few times, try debug, try the test tool, then maybe give the servers an hour or two to find their elbow from their arsehole and try again.

As I've said before, once I've gotten the url to you, there's little I can do about the media servers' battyness.

What player commands are you using anyway? Post your config file without the user and pass, of course.

I get the same thing occasionally (more frequently than I'd like.) I thought I was just getting hit by some obnoxious memory/cpu hog on my laptop. I'm pretty sure I'm pushing the limits of the system requirements with a 750 Mhz x 256 MB RAM but when it works, it's beautiful. It's been driving me nuts when it doesn't, though. I'm guessing they're still screwing with the media delivery platform but I'll read the Mosaic forums later tonight.

Fixed in Revision 79. They changed the login message I was matching from "mlb.com" to MLB.com"

An error occurred in the player process.

Check your player commands or post your config (minus user/pass here and I'll look into it.) Also, check debug and make sure you're getting a proper looking url.

Media stutters

I'll look into it in the forums but I doubt there's anything I can do except tell you that I get it and hate it too.

Login unsuccessful.

Fixed in revision 79. Everyone update. I guess I'll be rolling out a new release soon. Give me a thumbs up that it works, and I'll get it up in the next day or two so new users don't get stuck on this.

Did I miss anyone's question/concern?

hurrah! thank you...

79 it's ok!