MLB.TV in Linux

I upgraded Ubuntu to 12.04 yesterday and now mplayer2 is behaving like Adobe flashplayer on archived games. I still can't get live games.

Originally Posted by rjwood I upgraded Ubuntu to 12.04 yesterday and now mplayer2 is behaving like Adobe flashplayer on archived games. I still can't get live games.

When you say you can't get live games is it a "Stream not available" error?

If it is, please copy and paste the full contents of ~/.mlb/unsuccessful.xml to http://pastebin.com. My guess is that it can't determine your location so it doesn't know how to apply blackout rules. Why the browser works and mlbviewer doesn't is confusing.

Another thing you can try is highlight the game you want but instead of 'Enter', press the 'z' key. Look for the event-id which will look something like 14-318018-2012-04-27. Then quit out of mlbviewer and do the following:

python test/nexdefdl.py 14-318018-2012-04-27 | tee /tmp/nexdef-debug.log

substituting the real live game event-id.

Then post the full contents of /tmp/nexdef-debug.log to pastebin.com.

http://pastebin.com/PiqcWRF7

Originally Posted by rjwood http://pastebin.com/PiqcWRF7

That's the most unhelpful error message. Sorry. Not your fault. But I've got nothing to go on with that.

Is it always General System Error? Try a few different games.

Originally Posted by daftcat That's the most unhelpful error message. Sorry. Not your fault. But I've got nothing to go on with that. Is it always General System Error? Try a few different games.

By the way, there aren't any live games right now. What timezone are you in? I am suspecting that the conversion from Eastern Daylight Time (what the listings are listed in from MLB) to local time is incorrect leading you to try a "live" game when there isn't one being broadcasted yet.

Originally Posted by daftcat That's the most unhelpful error message. Sorry. Not your fault. But I've got nothing to go on with that. Is it always General System Error? Try a few different games.

There are no live games to try currently. With the archived games it says "buffering streamplayer" and then the mplayer socket thing.

ETA: the archived game plays - just not smoothly.

Originally Posted by daftcat By the way, there aren't any live games right now. What timezone are you in? I am suspecting that the conversion from Eastern Daylight Time (what the listings are listed in from MLB) to local time is incorrect leading you to try a "live" game when there isn't one being broadcasted yet.

Eastern. I live in Pa. I've tried more than an hour after they begin.

The error is "....stream not available yet" I think.

You were right about MLB.TV wanting to authenticate me. Sorry!

But now how do I make mplayer stop behaving like flash?

I decided to start over.

I've got mlbviewer up and am getting mlbhls set up. I've got the string but when I do

./mlbhls -o output.ts -B with_the-string

I receive the following

[MLB] Reading cfg file: mlb.cfg
[MLB] Output file: output.ts
[MLB] Max. Bandwidth: 0(bps)
[MLB] Min. Bandwidth: 0(bps)
[MLB] Bandwidth Locking: 1
[MLB] Fetching Master URL...
[MLB] Playlist refresh time: 12 (s)
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Originally Posted by rjwood There are no live games to try currently. With the archived games it says "buffering streamplayer" and then the mplayer socket thing. ETA: the archived game plays - just not smoothly.

The "socket thing" is mplayer trying to initialize LIRC support for remote controls. If you don't have an IR remote control and/or don't know what LIRC is, add "nolirc=yes" to ~/.mplayer/config and that message goes away.

Originally Posted by rjwood You were right about MLB.TV wanting to authenticate me. Sorry! But now how do I make mplayer stop behaving like flash?

The mplayer string you use in the separate window, put that in video_player= setting of mlbviewer.

I don't understand why you are doing this two terminal approach when mlbviewer is customizable enough to do what you need to do in a single terminal.

In any case, as soon as you go to that second terminal, any problems you encounter are not mine to support. It sounds like you are having a problem with mlbhls (Segmentation fault) so when that gets resolved, maybe we can figure out why you insist on doing things the hard way, and cannot just use mlbviewer in a single terminal.

Originally Posted by rjwood I decided to start over. I've got mlbviewer up and am getting mlbhls set up. I've got the string but when I do ./mlbhls -o output.ts -B with_the-string I receive the following [MLB] Reading cfg file: mlb.cfg [MLB] Output file: output.ts [MLB] Max. Bandwidth: 0(bps) [MLB] Min. Bandwidth: 0(bps) [MLB] Bandwidth Locking: 1 [MLB] Fetching Master URL... [MLB] Playlist refresh time: 12 (s) Segmentation fault (core dumped)

You said you upgraded Ubuntu. That means a lot of your libraries were updated. Try recompiling mlbhls:

cd mlbhls
make clean
make
sudo cp mlbhls /usr/bin

rob@rob-GN561AA-ABA-a6230n:~/mlbhls$ make clean
rm -f *.o mlbhls
rob@rob-GN561AA-ABA-a6230n:~/mlbhls$ make
gcc -O2 mlb.c utils.c output.c -lm -lcurl -lcrypto -lconfig -o mlbhls
mlb.c: In function ‘mlb_hls_get_and_decrypt’:
mlb.c:881:5: warning: call to ‘_curl_easy_setopt_err_long’ declared with attribute warning: curl_easy_setopt expects a long argument for this option [enabled by default]

http://pastebin.com/rnLjfR1K

Fixed! I read on wikipedia that one of the possible reasons for segmentation fault is compiling issues, so since I'd saved the former MLBHLS directory I restored that, copied it to /usr/bin, got a new string and all is well.

Sorry for bothering you and taking so much of the last two pages of this thread. Thanks for all the help and for mlbviewer and mlbhls. I do appreciate it.