I'm beginning to really dislike YDL. The distros have nothing! So far I've had to download and compile aclocal, automake, autoconf, even gcc!

Forty-five minutes in and I'm on step 5 of 22.

I suppose it wouldn't hurt to grab it a day early. You'll need svn anyway for getting the latest MPlayer.

If you don't already have svn, it's called subversion and it should be available in whichever package management system your Linux distribution uses. You can also get it here.

Once you have svn installed, you will need to checkout mlbviewer:

Start with the REQUIREMENTS-2009.txt file.

After you've met the requirements and mlbviewer.py starts up okay, you can either give it a go straight away, or you can read the README for more detailed information on mlbviewer.py usage.

Sorry it's not easier but it's a small price to pay for yummy baseball goodness without that choppy flash player.

It's good for you. It'll put hair on your chest. You won't be able to call yourself a newbie by the time you reach step 22.

Got to the last step ... and ...

mlbviewer is broke again >

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "mlbviewer.py", line 1225, in ?
curses.wrapper(mainloop, mycfg.data)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/curses/wrapper.py", line 44, in wrapper
return func(stdscr, *args, **kwds)
File "mlbviewer.py", line 346, in mainloop
raise KeyError,mycoverage
KeyError: '147'

You're doing this on purpose, aren't you?

Running debian unstable I cannot install autobahn.jar. I get the word Aborted. I saw mentions of extracting the pax which may have ben related to this issue but I didn't understand what this meant. Thanks for any help.

I'm getting this error too.

Fixed and checked in.

You don't have to worry about pax.

Download the autobahn.jar file from http://mlb.com/nexdef-jars/ and run as:

You need a java compatible with java version 1.4.1 or newer.

Blame the Yankees!

My stream selection code anticipates that there will be coverage for all games, but it didn't take into account rained out games where the coverage is null. I think I have this fixed now (and checked in) but you guys will put it through its paces. I won't be available until late tonight, so I wish you all luck.

Java version says 1.5.0; running command as above; result: Aborted.

Which JRE are you trying to use? I'm running the Sun JRE from the Ubuntu Intrepid repo and it's version 1.6.0_10.

Didn't work. Tried to start at the place you suggested but there were so many bits missing I had to go back and back until I was on the verge of installing gentoo. So I gave up and jumped forwards, installed libps3fb okay, but then the patch of mplayer didn't work (the fifth bit of the patch failed). Tried mlbviewer with mplayer -vo ps3 -fs -zoom but the video driver errored and wouldn't initialise. So it was so the 2" by 4" window and a telescope to see the Cubs beat the Marlins again

I don't think I've ever got on with mlbviewer and mplayer on the ps3. I used vlc last year. Is videolan about to release a mlbviewer-ready version?

Installed -java6-jre; ran update-java-alternatives --jre --set java-6-sun. I then was able to install autobahn.jar.

It's really frustrating. I'm not logged in to the website and/or games any other way, yet I only get one, or maybe sometimes two, tries with mlbviewer before I get the sign-on restrictions error. Right now am trying with gameday audio though thiking about upgrading to premium. i'm thinking that if an attemptto get a game is unsuccessful, maybe i'm not logged out so when I try again I get the sign-on restriction. Tried removing the cookie and sessionkey but still end up waiting. will it help if I just remove them after an attempt instead of waiting to be banned?
I loved this program last year so am sticking with it till I get things working.

chomiak,

I can't help with the sign-on restrictions, but to clear up any other confusion, the autobahn.jar is useless unless you have a Premium subscription. That's the backbone of the "NexDef" plugin which is a Premium-only feature.