SVN revision 383: added use_wired_web configuration option and updated test/mediaxml.py
 

So that you don't have to make that edit every time you update, I have added the configuration file option use_wired_web. It defaults to 0 but you can change it to 1 for basic subscribers who want to use nexdef.

In fact, if premium subscribers want to do some testing for me, they can add use_wired_web=1 to their configuration file as well. I want to know if you notice any performance or quality differences. If you see no difference, I could make use_wired_web=1 the default for everyone.

Also, did you know that those XML replies from the test tools are saved to ~/.mlb/successful-1.xml and ~/.mlb/successful-2.xml (or unsuccessful-1.xml and unsuccessful-2.xml) for all media requests? Yeah, me neither. :p Sometimes I make debug additions I forget I made. :D You can use test/mediaxml.py on either one of those files to see a decoded version of the xml similar to that pastebin I posted above.

I had forgotten there was a top_plays_player, which is where vlc was being picked up since I'm just watching highlights since I don't have a subscription.

ETA: Is there any way to play all the top plays from a game in a playlist? I'm not sure if it's possible but I'd love to be able to catch the highlights form a game that way.

Cannot create configuration file
 

For some reason, mlbviewer.py is giving me an error in trying to create a configuration file. I'm wondering if I can bypass the problem by manually creating the file. Can someone here pass along a generic configuration file and tell me where it should be located?

I don't see how this can be a permissions issue, since it happens even if I try to run the program as root.

Thanks for any help that can be offered.

Post the error.

It works fine, thanks.

Interesting thought. I'm away from my comp right now so I can't comment with authority yet. If top plays are just direct links to the videos, it shouldn't be too hard. Maybe a lazy Sunday project. If it takes two XML requests like normal video then probably not.

Also I have something else up my sleeve that I've been playing with that as a non-subscriber, you'll probably appreciate. ;)

File "mlbviewer.py", line 113
print 'Creating configuration files'

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Then, if I comment out line 113 (the print command), I get this:

File "mlbviewer.py", line 118
print 'Could not create directory: ' + '\n'

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Thanks for looking into the top plays playlist. It's a bit of a pain to have to close my player after each video to see the next one, although I haven't even looked to see if there's a way to bypass closing the player to let mlbviewer know I'm ready for something else. And goodies for us poor folk who can't afford a subscription? I look forward to seeing what you have in mind.

Sounds like you have python 3.0. Mlbviewer is written for 2.x (Mostly 2.7ish)

What does "python --version" say?

See if you can install python2.7 on your system.

Top plays is a single file (...gameid/media/highlights.xml) and each individual highlight has a direct url. It should be a problem to implement a playlist. Sunday afternoon project. :)

The other thing(s) I'm working will take longer.

I have both python 3.3 and python 2.7 installed (it's Arch linux).

I don't know how to get mlbviewer to use 2.7, though. Any suggestion?

Thanks again for your help.

I was afraid top plays worked like that. Is it possible to select a new video in mlbviewer without closing my video player? If so that could work for me. As far as the other thing? No rush from me. I'm just glad to have mlbviewer to be able to watch my daily highlight videos. It may even keep me from saving each video in my web browser to be able to watch them, although it won't help me with getting them in game order. And that's just a personal quirk of mine.

I meant to say "should not" be a problem to implement playlist functionality this weekend.

No, it's more of a problem to interact with an already open mplayer instance.

If you want a sneak preview of what will eventually be implemented:

I'm just going to add a new keybinding (or overload an existing one for the highlights screen) that will automate this for you once you've navigated to the top plays screen for a particular game.

I had an idea I needed to close the player between videos. That looks pretty cool. I'll wait to take it for a spin since I'm also running tests for SolydK's Update Pack 1 and don't want to confuse me or my laptop too much. I know when you roll it out it'll probably be well worth waiting for.

Gah! I understand that python3 is the next generation but python2.7 is still probably more widely used. I don't like distros that try to be bleeding edge just to be bleeding edge.

Now that I have that off my chest.

You could change the symbolic link from /usr/bin/python from python3.3 to python2.7 but that may break a whole ton of system stuff if they actually did the system stuff in python3.3.

You could change the top line of every file from #!/usr/bin/env python to #!/usr/bin/python2.7 except you'll have to do that every time a file gets updated. Not a good option.

If you have /usr/local/bin ahead of /usr/bin in your PATH (env | grep PATH), you can add try adding a symbolic link in /usr/local/bin to python2.7 (ln -s /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/local/bin/python)

That third option may be the safest but there may still be user-level python bindings that could get affected.

You can try it and see if that fixes mlbviewer for you. Then you'll have to watch to see if anything else breaks (maybe anything that uses dbus?)

Let me look into this and see what I can come up with.