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Also, another guy has a page on just using mlbviewer from the command line: https://code.google.com/p/mlbtv-webc...ki/RaspberryPi |
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BTW, woot.com is running a Samsung Smart TV sale today. Great deals. They support MLB.TV. I am very tempted but it's not in the budget right now. When mlbviewer started, it was Windows/Mac via web browser or nothing. I love how many different devices now support MLB.TV (and many do a better job than a web browser+flash plugin.) Also, I am still looking into producing an mlbviewer live CD but it seems overkill to download 700 mb of distro for 60kb of code. If I can tune the live image down to 300 mb and not have it look like a hot mess (I'm looking at you, Damn Small Linux), that would be more ideal. |
In case anyone's interested I have mlbviewer running on slackware-current, it's fairly straightforward.
I have a fairly basic install, running twm as my main desktop, all I had to add were simplejson, rtmpdump and gdata, all available as slackbuilds. It was then just a case of download mlbviewer2014, untar, cd into the directory and run: $ python mlbviewer.py cd into ~/.mlb and add your login details to config then run it again as above and you should be good to go. Video opened in mplayer, audio was fine. |
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BTW, simplejson isn't required anymore. JSON support is part of standard Python now. This is great because I remember simplejson used to have annoying issues that Jesse's code (original mlbviewer developer) had to correct. |
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$ python mlbviewer.py then watch what it complained about. I then added simplejson, rtmpdump and gdata as they came up. |
I used mlbviewer all last year and started using it again this year. Great product! My PS3 playback has been aweful this year but mlbviewer is running smooth.
Anyway, sometimes after closing and opening the software too many times I'm getting "ERROR: Sign-on Restriction Error". I never got this last year so I'm assuming they're being more aggressive with account sharing. Is this a problem you've been dealing with as well when you have to test and open/close the app a lot? Thanks! Billy |
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I was listening to the audio feed of a game tonight, and when the game ended, I could not get out of the audio feed. Closing the application did nothing. Short of turning off my computer, how do I get out of the audio feed? Typing 'q' for quit did nothing to stop the audio. Thanks.
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Ideally, you should not be stream hopping very often so this shouldn't happen often. |
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1. Caps Lock? 2. Window focus? Sometimes, especially after video, it looks like I have window focus in the terminal, but I really don't. After I kick off the streamer and player processes, I poll them regularly for 'q' and Ctrl-C. So if you have focus and Caps Lock did not accidentally activate, q or Ctrl-C should quit the streamer/player processes without exiting the application. Bonus thought: This same code to getch() for a quit key during process playback does not exist in the mlbplay.py script. That you'll just Ctrl-C to kill everything if you want to quit before the stream does. |
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I keep getting the sign in restriction error. MLB has definitely changed the authentication, but they haven't become stricter on their own platforms. I can watch on my Apple TV, PC, and PS3 at the same time and continually switch streams with no problem. I switched streams three times on mlbviewer and now I am locked out of my account.
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Anyway, sorry for the long post - just saying that while mlbviewer is no longer the only way for me to watch MLB.TV, it is still the best way. But I agree - it's awesome that all these devices (which are usually based on Linux!) make it easier to be a Linux desktop user. |
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