Originally Posted by daftcat

I'm sorry. I meant what does your audio_player line look like:

Depending on what you have in the audio_player line, it takes a little while for cache to fill before playback starts. But we already saw in a previous quote that mplayer wasn't happy and we have to figure out why.

Try this line in your config since this seemed to work when playing a regular file:

This should take about 2-4 seconds of rtmpdump output before mplayer begins playback.

Another thing you can try is this.

I have just checked in a fix for test/gamedayaudio.py which is a test script that runs outside of the curses "gui" and provides a LOT more detail. It also simply writes the audio stream to the disk. This is helpful in this case because you can record a few seconds of audio, and then run mplayer over that file on disk to get only the mplayer relevant messages.

Try this:

This will start downloading the audio stream rather quickly. So Ctrl-C it after just a few seconds worth of audio is downloaded. That's all we need.

Now do the following:

If that works, then simply change your config to audio_player=mplayer. You can always fine tune it with cache options and -ao alsa later. If that doesn't work, post mplayer.log here.

Originally Posted by daftcat

Works fine on XP Pro. That's what I've tested with.

Originally Posted by JimSquire

OK, thanks. I installed Cygwin, but for some reason I can't do much of anything in the command window when I run it, so I'll probably just uninstall and start over.

Originally Posted by kweisen

daftcat:

I keep trying different things, but in answer to your last message:

grep audio_player ~/.mlb/config
audio_player=mplayer -cache 64 -really-quiet


Then, I did modify this line as your suggested, still did not work.

I then ran your test script and got this:

:~$ cd mlbviewer-svn
kim@debian:~/mlbviewer-svn$ test/gamedayaudio.py 14-264187-2010=05-03
These are the cookies we have received so far :
0 : <Cookie SESSION_1=flowId%3D%3D%3Dregistration.wizard%7Ewf_c_id%3D%3D%3Dmlb%7Ewf_flowId%3D%3D%3Dregistration. wizard%7Estage%3D%3D%3D3 for .mlb.com/>
1 : <Cookie appacc=mlb for .mlb.com/>
2 : <Cookie ipid=6910222 for .mlb.com/>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test/gamedayaudio.py", line 125, in <module>
cj.save(COOKIEFILE,ignore_discard=True)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/_LWPCookieJar.py", line 83, in save
f = open(filename, "w")
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'mlbcookie.lwp'

so, no audio streaming.

Any thoughts?

Originally Posted by edouble312

just remember you have to install the packages with the cygwin installer, not in the command windows...

Originally Posted by Wolfvorkian

Everything works fine except for condensed games as they crap out ( mplayer locks up ) after a minute or so.

Originally Posted by Wolfvorkian

Edouble, thanks for the 'how to do'. It was obviously top notch because I know next to nothing about computers yet I was able to get Mlbviewer running in Cygwin ..Windows 7. Everything works fine except for condensed games as they crap out ( mplayer locks up ) after a minute or so.

Major frustration was a permission problem with rtmpdump. I'm not going to tell anyone how long it took me to figure that out when even the the terminal was almost telling me exactly what was was wrong.

And Straycat, besides throwing the usual juice your way for Mlbviewer, I want to thank your baseball team for being so rotten that even the Palehose can win a series off of them. That Billy Butler should break the all-time record for GIDP in a season by the middle of August at the rate he is going.

Originally Posted by Wolfvorkian

I haven't been able to get anything but audio and that was nearly 12 hours ago. This morning, around noon EDT, they are still timing out everywhere as far as I can tell. Now I can't get even audio or get into the forum to read their cleanup for another screwup.

Anybody know anything other than it's broken? I got a game to watch in around an hour.

Originally Posted by mchapter

Recently I've only been able to either select 800k or 1200k but not any of the lower or higher bitrates for live or archived games. Any thoughts? I'm pretty sure nothing has changed on my end.

Originally Posted by daftcat

Sh!t happens.

But it looks like games are streaming again.

Originally Posted by Wolfvorkian

"Sh!t happens"!!! Absolutely no sympathy from our guru for the predicament I found myself in this morning. You wouldn't see this blase attitude out of him if he was getting "server error... try again later" if he was trying to tune into his beloved KC 'boils.

It fixed itself as suddenly as it broke. Calls to Mlb.techs around Dallas and then Manila didn't help any however the IP tech for my internet provider was able to login in under my userid and password and Voila!!, the games started streaming again. Go figure.