Can't look at it this weekend. Sorry. I'm away at a dance competition (e.g. what else I do for fun when I'm not watching baseball games.) Maybe next week. Use flash if you can.

[QUOTE=chrisVV;4120400]The Cincinatti-Philadelphia archive doesn't load for me with my MLB basic account. Debug reports this:

<snip>

I have a basic account here in UK. No joy here in recent days too. Sadly a test using soapevent is bombing out on yesturday's Braves @ Giants game (and others this week):

ipid = 29686670 fingerprint = zodsbTCBgixgS4H%2BSZ52ueUr44c%3D
session-key = N5nxBoTapX3bLx7x9yhrn8%2Ffvwk%3D
no session-key found in reply
Event-id = 14-286324-2010-10-08 and content-id = 12746633
url = None
play_path = None
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<fcs><ip>77.67.21.85</ip></fcs>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/elbournb/config/common/bin/soapevent.py", line 444, in <module>
cmd_str = recorder.replace('%s', '"' + game_url + '"')
TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'NoneType' objects

Strangely: debian squeeze, iceweasel and the latest 64 bit flash plugin from adobe plays the game fine directly off the mlb.com website. Now who would have predicted that - mlb.tv finally works on Linux

I presume the xml structures have changed again. Any chance of an update to fix the soapevent code?

But it's weird. For me it works again for yesterday's games (October 9th)...

The two NL games on Friday and the two AL games yesterday both work for me. Let's see what happens with today's games.

Whew mlbviewer is doing fine here again. The problem remains with "test".

I checked out another svn copy today. soapvent.py 14-286331-2010-10-11 from the nexdef branch gives:

<snip>
url = None
play_path = None
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<fcs><ip>92.123.154.149</ip></fcs>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./soapevent.py", line 408, in <module>
cmd_str = recorder.replace('%s', '"' + game_url + '"')
TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'NoneType' objects

The trunk version gives this:

<snip>
url = [None, None]
play_path = None
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<fcs><ip>92.123.154.149</ip></fcs>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./soapevent.py", line 409, in <module>
cmd_str = recorder.replace('%s', '"' + game_url + '"')
TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'list' objects

Maybe nothing but could be a sign of trouble ahead?

Well the first two of Sunday's games play, but the last (When Minnesota went out) will not play, except in its compacted form. Yesterday's game was OK.

So far, the only days on which there have been problems have been those on which 3 games are played. If that remains then we are OK, but I wouldn't count on it. I don't in fact think this a new issue. During the regular season there were occasional games that would not, and will not, play, but they were only a very small handful. There seems to be something in MLB.TV's stream identification protocol which mlbviewer occasionally misses with, but which unfortunately for some reason is more prevalent during this post-season.

To avoid confusion I think that was Cincinatti's going out: anyway it was the last game on Sunday. (I am not going to look it up as I still have to watch the last few innings of last night's game. No spoilers please.)

:-( Same here. mlbviewer debug shows this:

Traceback (most recent call last):aying...
File "/home/elbournb/config/common/bin/mlbviewer.py", line 1499, in <module>
curses.wrapper(mainloop, mycfg.data)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/curses/wrapper.py", line 44, in wrapper
return func(stdscr, *args, **kwds)
File "/home/elbournb/config/common/bin/mlbviewer.py", line 1193, in mainloop
u = g.url()
File "/home/elbournb/config/common/bin/nexdef2010/MLBviewer/mlbtv.py", line 1264, in url
content_list = self.parse_media_request(reply)
File "/home/elbournb/config/common/bin/nexdef2010/MLBviewer/mlbtv.py", line 1129, in parse_media_request
if 'in-market' in dict['coverage_type']:
KeyError: 'coverage_type'

soapevent gives:

<snip>
ipid = 29686670 fingerprint = b7gzsMqhUnG38RpN%2B7wLScyVf%2B0%3D
session-key = Tp%2Fto5jnLErKAtkOS1t0dhqpNoU%3D
no session-key found in reply
Event-id = 14-286325-2010-10-10 and content-id = 12776075
url = None
play_path = None
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<fcs><ip>92.123.154.149</ip></fcs>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/elbournb/config/common/bin/soapevent.py", line 444, in <module>
cmd_str = recorder.replace('%s', '"' + game_url + '"')
TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'NoneType' objects

Trouble ahead....

Sorry I haven't replied in awhile.

I was at a swing dance competition last week and then came back super-sick with the cold from hell. I'm finally starting to feel like I can keep my head up for more than a few minutes at a time.

So what I've read of the last few messages here:

1. Test tools don't work. I knew this. The test tools used the SOAP methods to request media and somewhere in the middle of the season, they stopped supporting SOAP requests. I updated mlbviewer.py to use pure XML requests but I hadn't updated the test tools. The new test tools are:

nosoap.py : acts like soapevent.py writing to disk using rtmpdump alone
stdnosoap.py : acts like stdout.py playing the stream through mplayer

2. Archives don't work with three to a day. I may not look at this since there will no longer be three in a day.


I *might* spin off a branch for postseason.tv which would have a new hotkey to open a new screen and let you select the camera angle you want to watch. Since this would be a fair amount of new code for only a dozen or so games, I would much rather spin off a branch where I wouldn't have to worry about compatibility with the regular mlb.tv service (e.g. archives and live games for international users.)

You can use the new test/nosoap.py and test/stdnosoap.py to view camera angles if you are a postseason.tv subscriber.

Step 1. Find the event-id of the game you want to watch using mlblistings.py.

Step 2. Find the content-id of the camera angle by reading the multi-angle-epg.xml file located here (change for the url for the current day's games):

http://gdx.mlb.com/components/game/m..._angle_epg.xml

Step 3: For watching the stream via mplayer use test/stdnosoap.py <event-id> <content-id> , e.g. for today's Yanks/Rangers Centerfield cam:

Maybe today but probably tomorrow, I'll try to spin off postseason.py that will auto-magically parse those multi-angle-epg.xml files.

That is what happened earlier in the playoffs. Unfortunately it is not what is happening now. The second game last night (SF v Philadelphia) won't play.

If you could look at that it would be really appreciated.

Chris

Fixed.

Actually, it was the same problem. They added multi-angle listings in the media response for postseason.tv. These don't work in the archive so we were effectively getting "file not found" errors. There's an in_epg key that distinguishes between postseason.tv and regular mlb.tv. Added in code to select for only mlb.tv listings and now the SF @ Phi and Phi @ Cin game from 10/10/10 work.

That's great, thanks. As well as the archive, its also the live feed for viewers outside North America.

Chris

Wasn't as dirty as I thought it would be so I kept it in the nexdef branch.

'P' (capital p) key will open a list of camera angles.

Contrary to what I said earlier, the camera angles do pan and zoom (within the limits of their angle.) They even have X-Mo angle for replays and Pitchtrax for pitch tracking graphics.

Quad mode angle is only for mobile devices so I have pruned it from the list. If you want to do your own quad mode, you'll need to open multiple mlbviewer windows and mute all but one mplayer window with the 'm' key. You'll probably have synchronization issues so pick the one you'll primarily watch as the first window, and open and mute any additional windows.

You'll need to be a PostSeason.TV subscriber (one-time $9.95 charge) to watch the camera angles. It's not bad to at least be able to watch/listen to something during the live game without being completely blacked out.

Anyway, I gave up about half my Sunday to this, so someone splurge on the ten bucks and give it a whirl.

So, I take it from the silence that everyone is happy with mlbviewer and its postseason support.

I've been watching the archives every night and the nights I get home early enough, I watch the PostSeason.TV coverage too. It's not nearly as good as watching the actual TV broadcast but it sure beats trying to get StreamTorrent to play some Japan ESPN stream of the game.

Has anyone else tried the new PostSeason.TV support in mlbviewer? Or is this like the bookmark feature (a cool feature that nobody uses)?