mlb has been having problems recently. This is the major reason I implemented jump to innings. I was sick of getting 6 innings through a game only to have it drop out.

Not necessarily. This is my thinking: initially, stream select is "off", and therefore stream select condition is skipped and the video follow condition takes effect. Once you adjust the stream selection via the "s" key it is either "home" or "away", and therefore stream selection takes precedence. To me this would be slickest because the only time I select a stream is if my favorite teams' streams are not HD, but if other people's workflows are different it really is not that big of a deal to turn of video follow either.

So if stream selection is "off" and video_follow is absent, what's the default? I think it is more intuitive to know which stream you are going to get before you press 'Enter' (or 'a' or 'i'.)

It turns out that I already have code to detect when a stream preference is unavailable (e.g. HOME is selected, but there isn't a home stream.) In the case of the 5/5 SFG-CHC game, the media listing publishes the away stream as being available but Nexdef servers report an invalid stream. I've adjusted the error message accordingly but I can't fix this without enabling video_follow toggle. Or rather, I will keep the stream selection rules the way they are and implement video follow toggle later this week.

So I take it the JTI interface works for you with Orca then? That's good to hear. I've never thought about mlbviewer being used with screen reader software. Do you use the show_inning_frames=False config file option or does Orca have ways to skip over that line score graphic?

Fair enough.

So I noticed the other day when I went to use JTI (Jump to Innings) on a game I hadn't watched yet, the absence of a bottom of the 9th told me in an instant that my Royals had lost (again.)

I'm going to make two changes to JTI.

1. For the line score graphic, I'm going to change the bottom of the ninth to "?" for all completed 9-inning games.

2. For all completed 9-inning games, instead of saying the last available half inning is the top or bottom of the ninth, it will read,
"Last available half inning: Game Completed."

You'll still have the ability to jump to the bottom of the 9th (to watch the walk-offs or your favorite closer), but I won't tell you up front whether that's a valid half inning to jump to.

I'll have to do something similar for extra innings games when I get around to fixing JTI for them.

Any objections or alternate suggestions?

I tried the Cinco De Mayo Release and when I select a game and press a, mplayer opens with this message:

mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory

What should I do?

Thanks.

Do you have rtmpdump version 1.5 with patches applied according to the REQUIREMENTS document?

Gameday audio will not work without rtmpdump. Live game audio will not work without the provided patch.

I think I also need to change the default video_player and audio_player commands. The defaults from last year won't work this year. Sorry. That was my mistake.

Add these to your configuration file (~/.mlb/config):

Adjust the cache size to your liking.

Fixed in rev 202.
Also fixed player defaults to remove 'xterm -e'.
Also added human readable time counter to stream screen of nexdef mode--displayed in Eastern Time currently. (I might change this to localtime or I might not.)

As an aside, Bot 9 will always show as '[?]' now even if there are extra innings. It's cosmetically goofy when there are extra innings but, oh well. I think you guys will figure it out. ;-) I'll fix this when I fix the jump to extra innings. Not a high priority, though.

Which post explains how to implement JTI?

Update to rev 202 and press 'i' instead of 'Enter'. The onscreen instructions should be clear enough. It's a NexDef only feature though. But if you're Premium and you've got autobahn.jar running, you should be good to go.

Where is revision 202? Sorry.

svn revision 202.

Once you've checked out mlbviewer, you can keep it up to date with the "svn up" command from within the mlbviewer directory.

I plan to make another Sourceforge release in a week or two, though.

Brilliant! Got to cover up the spoilers. When I watch an archived game, it's most commonly because I want to see the game before I know what happened in the game, as if it were live. I can still remember using the flash player a couple years ago and having to cover up the side of the screen where the scores would show until I got the game full-screened.