MLB.TV in Linux

Theophile · 04-06-2010, 11:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rjwood

Thanks for the help! Funny thing is this problem is only occurring with mlbviewer. I have videos on my system that work fine.

Okay, good. Now this:

Code:

mplayer -vo help

rjwood · 04-06-2010, 11:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Theophile

Okay, good. Now this:

Code:

mplayer -vo help

Here you go!

Quote:

rob@rob-desktop:~$ mplayer -vo help
MPlayer SVN-r31016-4.4.1 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
Available video output drivers:
x11 X11 ( XImage/Shm )
xover General X11 driver for overlay capable video output drivers
fbdev Framebuffer Device
fbdev2 Framebuffer Device
v4l2 V4L2 MPEG Video Decoder Output
directfb Direct Framebuffer Device
dfbmga DirectFB / Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550
xvidix X11 (VIDIX)
cvidix console VIDIX
null Null video output
mpegpes MPEG-PES to DVB card
yuv4mpeg yuv4mpeg output for mjpegtools
png PNG file
jpeg JPEG file
tga Targa output
pnm PPM/PGM/PGMYUV file
md5sum md5sum of each frame

rob@rob-desktop:~$

daftcat · 04-06-2010, 01:12 PM

I don't see "xv X11/Xv" in that list.

That could be a problem. Theophile can confirm.

Check if you have libxv-dev installed:

Code:

$ sudo dpkg --get-selections | grep -v deinstall | grep libxv-dev
libxv-dev                                       install

If you don't have that, install it:

Code:

$ sudo apt-get install libxv-dev

Then rebuild mplayer.

rmbellovin · 04-06-2010, 01:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by daftcat

Turns out these were both related to the changes in the playback scenario names made since last year. I'm almost dumbstruck at how simple the fixes were.

Test them both and tell me if they are working now. Might be a small consolation since none of the archives are working yet.

Top plays works for me (without sound), but condensed game doesn't. When I get rid of -really-quiet, mplayer says

Quote:

No stream found to handle url rtmp://[...]

rjwood · 04-06-2010, 01:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by daftcat

I don't see "xv X11/Xv" in that list.

That could be a problem. Theophile can confirm.

Check if you have libxv-dev installed:

Code:

$ sudo dpkg --get-selections | grep -v deinstall | grep libxv-dev
libxv-dev                                       install

If you don't have that, install it:

Code:

$ sudo apt-get install libxv-dev

Then rebuild mplayer.

I went ahead and recompiled mplayer after reinstalling libxv-dev and not really any difference - in fact the picture is slightly more scrunched.

Is it possible this issue is due to the mplayer being for 64 bit? I have a 32 bit Ubuntu system installed. Just a guess!

Also I installed mlbviewer on my laptop and I'm not getting a picture at all - the terminal times like the video is coming in but no picture.

This is becoming tiresome - thanks for hanging with me.

rjwood · 04-06-2010, 02:03 PM

Now I'm not getting a picture at all on either computer.

Theophile · 04-06-2010, 02:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rjwood

I went ahead and recompiled mplayer after reinstalling libxv-dev and not really any difference - in fact the picture is slightly more scrunched.

Is it possible this issue is due to the mplayer being for 64 bit? I have a 32 bit Ubuntu system installed. Just a guess!

Also I installed mlbviewer on my laptop and I'm not getting a picture at all - the terminal times like the video is coming in but no picture.

This is becoming tiresome - thanks for hanging with me.

The problem is that we don't know what you did to install mplayer. You still have your compiled version installed. You should not have to compile anything so we have to make sure to remove it from your system. Do this:

Code:

sudo apt-get --purge remove mplayer mencoder

Afterwards, make sure there is no 'mplayer' binary in either /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin . Do this:

Code:

/usr/bin/mplayer
/usr/local/bin/mplayer

You should get "No such file or directory" for both.

Now do this:

Code:

sudo apt-get install mplayer

After it finishes, do this command again, and paste the output:

Code:

/usr/bin/mplayer -vo help

rjwood · 04-06-2010, 02:23 PM

after the purge

Quote:

rob@rob-desktop:~$ /usr/bin/mplayer
MPlayer SVN-r31016-4.4.1 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
Usage: mplayer [options] [url|path/]filename

Basic options: (complete list in the man page)
-vo <drv> select video output driver ('-vo help' for a list)
-ao <drv> select audio output driver ('-ao help' for a list)
vcd://<trackno> play (S)VCD (Super Video CD) track (raw device, no mount)
dvd://<titleno> play DVD title from device instead of plain file
-alang/-slang select DVD audio/subtitle language (by 2-char country code)
-ss <position> seek to given (seconds or hh:mm:ss) position
-nosound do not play sound
-fs fullscreen playback (or -vm, -zoom, details in the man page)
-x <x> -y <y> set display resolution (for use with -vm or -zoom)
-sub <file> specify subtitle file to use (also see -subfps, -subdelay)
-playlist <file> specify playlist file
-vid x -aid y select video (x) and audio (y) stream to play
-fps x -srate y change video (x fps) and audio (y Hz) rate
-pp <quality> enable postprocessing filter (details in the man page)
-framedrop enable frame dropping (for slow machines)

Basic keys: (complete list in the man page, also check input.conf)
<- or -> seek backward/forward 10 seconds
down or up seek backward/forward 1 minute
pgdown or pgup seek backward/forward 10 minutes
< or > step backward/forward in playlist
p or SPACE pause movie (press any key to continue)
q or ESC stop playing and quit program
+ or - adjust audio delay by +/- 0.1 second
o cycle OSD mode: none / seekbar / seekbar + timer
* or / increase or decrease PCM volume
x or z adjust subtitle delay by +/- 0.1 second
r or t adjust subtitle position up/down, also see -vf expand

* * * SEE THE MAN PAGE FOR DETAILS, FURTHER (ADVANCED) OPT

daftcat · 04-06-2010, 02:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rjwood

after the purge

Do:

Code:

$ mplayer -vo help

That will show what video drivers this version of mplayer supports.

rjwood · 04-06-2010, 02:29 PM

And the other

Quote:

rob@rob-desktop:~$ /usr/local/bin/mplayer
bash: /usr/local/bin/mplayer: No such file or directory
rob@rob-desktop:~$

I purged again and still get the same thing in /usr/bin/mplayer

rjwood · 04-06-2010, 02:31 PM

....

Quote:

ob@rob-desktop:~$ mplayer -vo help
MPlayer SVN-r31016-4.4.1 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
Available video output drivers:
x11 X11 ( XImage/Shm )
xover General X11 driver for overlay capable video output drivers
fbdev Framebuffer Device
fbdev2 Framebuffer Device
v4l2 V4L2 MPEG Video Decoder Output
directfb Direct Framebuffer Device
dfbmga DirectFB / Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550
xvidix X11 (VIDIX)
cvidix console VIDIX
null Null video output
mpegpes MPEG-PES to DVB card
yuv4mpeg yuv4mpeg output for mjpegtools
png PNG file
jpeg JPEG file
tga Targa output
pnm PPM/PGM/PGMYUV file
md5sum md5sum of each frame

daftcat · 04-06-2010, 02:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rmbellovin

Top plays works for me (without sound), but condensed game doesn't. When I get rid of -really-quiet, mplayer says

Try adding:

Code:

top_plays_player=mplayer -cache 2048

to your ~/.mlb/config file.

I'm pretty sure I have a catch in there to copy your video_player to top_plays_player if top_plays_player is not in config but I never know with that code these days.

Theophile · 04-06-2010, 02:32 PM

See below

rmbellovin · 04-06-2010, 02:33 PM

The problem I was having with playing video with sound turned out to be that mplayer hadn't been compiled with faad support. I recompiled and now I've got sound. The reason gameday audio worked is that that was just an mpeg stream, which is handled differently.

daftcat · 04-06-2010, 02:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rjwood

....

I'm going to defer to Theophile and let him decide whether you should re-install or re-compile.