The intent is to keep the basic interface simple with very little startup knowledge necessary to get it going. However, I'd like to also have powerful tools ready at your disposal should you want to dive in deeper. For example, the listings screen will probably not undergo any more changes except perhaps place a couple visual cues for settings in your config file like [800k] to denote that your default speed is 800k. You might be able to press 'p' (I have other plans for 's') to change your speed on the fly. Of course if you never want to, you never need to.

Beyond the basic interface, I'd like to have a couple other screens you could access (but don't have to.) When highlighting the current game, maybe you could press 'i' and it would bring up a game detail screen. In that screen it would have team records, probable pitchers and their records, and perhaps news hyperlinks for the preview pages. Each game actually has a preview page on MLB for each of the home and away teams. I would like to figure out how to tell Firefox to load a page if it's running or launch it if it's not (or whatever web browser you want to use in the config file.) We could also print linescores but only when requested. I hate spoilers!

Another couple screens I am considering implementing is a scoreboard screen and a standings screen.

I'd also like to support all the video links in the listings we download from mlb.com which would include condensed games and top plays.

My intention is not to clutter anything up with overbearing interfaces and unwieldy config files but rather make power features available for people who want them and completely unused code for people who don't. That's one of the nice things with OOP. If you never press that 'i' key, we'll never pull down the miniscoreboard.xml file that has all that game info and we'll never build the objects and methods to support it in your memory. We don't make it until you order it.

Good things are coming but the basic operation will remain simple.

Hmmm. This is what I get:

I have a super-fast internet connection, so that isn't it and I tried a few other urls instead of mlb.mlb.com and none worked either. Whazza?

I don't see your GET request in the output above. You have to copy and paste the lines from GET to Cache-Control (inclusive) and press return twice at the end to denote the end of the headers and submit the request.

You can only watch the live 400k stream, but you can get the archived 800k stream. I forgot I had it at 800k and tried to watch a live stream. Comes back with an HTML error. I've since upgraded my service as the quality difference is night an day.

daftcat: Oh I see. I do get the response you posted earlier when I (do it properly and) insert the lines from GET to Cache-Control. Any other ideas? Thanks for the help.

So at the core OS level, you're able to communicate with the servers. That's really weird that Python is having trouble. I'm sure you don't find that comforting that we're stumped. Let me do some Google searching and see what I can find. In the meantime, can you see if there's an update for your Python available? 2.5.1 sounds recent but maybe there's something buggy about it that I'm not aware of. Personally, I'm using 2.4.4. No, wait, I'm using 2.5.1 under Cygwin on my Windows machine. I guess that rules out the Python version.

Let me see if I can find something on Google. I'll get back to you. In the meantime, I have tested our code under Windows using Cygwin if you wanted to test that for comparison.

Can someone tell me how to get gameday audio?

If you're using the code released on Monday, you highlight a game and press 'a'. It defaults to the Home team stream but you can add audio_follow=kc (or whoever your favorite team is) and if that team is playing in one of the game you're listening to, then the audio stream will select that team's audio stream. That way if you like your team's announcers, you'll always listen to them no matter if they are at home or on the road.

daftcat Thanks, I figured it out, I am slowly learning Python as well! Cool, I am excited! Go cubbies!

BUT---I am watching it on TV and wanted to listen to the radio feed but MLB.tv audio feed is about 35 seconds behind, LOL....oh well

oneil72

This is very strange. The only thing that comes to mind -- like daftcat said -- is that a bug crept into ubuntu's version of python. I'm using gutsy as well, and I'm also using python 2.5..1 and I'm not having any problems, but I also haven't kept up to date with all the updates -- looks like you have.

Still, a web search shows no reports of similar urlerrors, and so many things depend on the modules, I'm sure something would have shown up. But the problem does seem to be in python.

A few more troubleshooting questions:

1. Can you connect with other webpages through python? E.g. run the example with the python interface I gave you earlier with 'http://www.google.com' ?

2. If you run the simple example with urllib instead of urllib2, what happens? (I.e. import urllib, urllib.urlopen, and so on.)

Script it working good for me.

Excellent!

Music to my ears.

Update:

Streams are working better for me today since I added -user-agent NSPlayer to my mplayer options.

It may or may not be related though. Maybe I'm just having a good run of luck right now.

jkr

Hmmm. This is what I get for your 1 and 2 above. You'll notice google.com yields the exact same errors as in my post 459, and urllib just gives errors on different lines. Still no luck. Should I try uninstalling and reinstalling python? Thanks for your help.

oneil72

That's what I would recommend. All the Google posts I've seen so far that refer to your error are in regards to proxy servers but you proved via telnet that you're not using a proxy. Try re-installing Python. I'm crossing my fingers for you.