[Release] MLBMC - a Major League Baseball (video) add-on

divingmule · 2012-05-17 18:36

(2012-05-17 17:52)sdsnyr94 Wrote: New feature request: If you go to mlb.tv and click on 'watch/listen', if you look at the 'expanded' grid it shows the logos of the head to head matchup.... is there any way to pull those down and use them in the 'Thumbnail' view?

I've looked in to this before Tongue

Because the thumbnail URL given for the games actually doesn't exist until sometime after the game starts Confused

The images on that page are all (somehow? html/css) generated from http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/images/team_logos.../logos.png. If you, right click or look at the page info, you will see that they aren't actually images.

I have actually thought* about making all the different icons(would be a lot of work). I think it would be much nicer than the defaultVideoThumbnail or even the preview thumbnails.

sdsnyr94 · 2012-05-17 21:06

Could you use the individual logos on the game selection screen, so it would look like:

Mets Logo @ Reds Logo 7:30pm
Pirates Logo @ Braves Logo Archived
etc...

Similar to the right side of the ATV2's native app: http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/images/subscripti...4apple.png

divingmule · 2012-05-18 23:52

No, with plugin style add-on your limited, basically, to a label, thumbnail, and fanart.

goldsac · 2012-05-19 23:48

Just wanted to say that I tried running MLB.TV from a browser, with nexdef confirmed on full and everything, and there was honestly very little difference between that and the top-bitrate feed that can be had through this plugin.
Has anyone else noticed this?

I'm gonna run a few more trials, but if this stays consistent then I'm not too worried about whether HLS support (for Windows) evolves or not.

StinDaWg · 2012-05-20 03:50

(2012-05-19 23:48)goldsac Wrote: Just wanted to say that I tried running MLB.TV from a browser, with nexdef confirmed on full and everything, and there was honestly very little difference between that and the top-bitrate feed that can be had through this plugin.
Has anyone else noticed this?

I'm gonna run a few more trials, but if this stays consistent then I'm not too worried about whether HLS support (for Windows) evolves or not.

Yes, I think it's because the video decoder xbmc is using is better than whatever flash player it uses in the browser. ESPN looks much better played through xbmc than it does in the flash player as well. To be honest, I see no difference between the supposed 720p nexdef feed and the 540p feed in xbmc on my 50" tv, and I'm very picky. This makes me wonder just how good the 720p feed would look in xbmc. Big Grin

ryth · 2012-05-21 17:48

Hi there.

I'm new to XMBC and am running XBMC through OpenELEC on a Zotac AD10.

Every time I try and run MLBMC i receive an error in the interface.

Looking at the log leads me to believe that maybe MLBMC is timing out very quickly before it gets a server response?

Please see the log file here: http://sprunge.us/VUQU

Any insight you could offer into this error would be great.

FWIW I'm running OpenELEC 1.95.4 (FUSION).

I'm thinking I need to abandon OpenELEC and go for a straight up Ubuntu install with XBMC on top.. thoughts?

Thanks!

sdsnyr94 · 2012-05-21 22:05

How are you connected to your network? Wired or Wireless? If your wireless, do you get the same result wired? I have seen some weird results (in general, not just with MLBMC) with Openelec and wireless.

I use Openelec, hard wired, and have no trouble with MLBMC... I am using the 1.95.4 ION version.

If your thinking about an Ubuntu install, try XBMCbuntu..... I have it on a secondary PC and the install went very smooth.... the only hiccup I had was getting HDMI audio out on my ATI 4350 card. The good thing about going that route, as that you can use the mlbhls script and play the higher quality feeds.....

bunglebungle · 2012-05-22 17:25

http://pastebin.com/k333yeDH

I had previously played with the standalone mlbviewer. This plugin is very cool (thanks!), but it didn't have game-specific highlights, just daily and team-specific ones. This patch adds three entries under Game Highlights for the last three days' worth of games. Clicking one gives a list of games, which further expands into a list of highlights for that game. It does what I want now but feel free to integrate however appropriate.

The only problem I've seen is that the URL for a game's highlights returns a 404 in the morning before games start. I wanted to catch and suppress this but "getRequest" doesn't throw it, it always pops up a message instead. I just left it this way for now instead of trying to change too much. It's only an issue when looking at "Today's Games" early in the day.

divingmule · 2012-05-23 14:05

(2012-05-22 17:25)bunglebungle Wrote: http://pastebin.com/k333yeDH

I had previously played with the standalone mlbviewer. This plugin is very cool (thanks!), but it didn't have game-specific highlights, just daily and team-specific ones. This patch adds three entries under Game Highlights for the last three days' worth of games. Clicking one gives a list of games, which further expands into a list of highlights for that game. It does what I want now but feel free to integrate however appropriate.

The only problem I've seen is that the URL for a game's highlights returns a 404 in the morning before games start. I wanted to catch and suppress this but "getRequest" doesn't throw it, it always pops up a message instead. I just left it this way for now instead of trying to change too much. It's only an issue when looking at "Today's Games" early in the day.

Nice! Thanks for your contribution. I'll see what I can do about the 404's.

jshay · 2012-05-26 03:33

I can't seem to get any games to play on my ATV2. Here is the error in the log:

Code:

20:21:13 T:142385152  NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--

20:21:14 T:142385152  NOTICE: (((((((((( Version dharma - 0.0.4, eden - 1.0.1 ))))))))))

20:21:14 T:142385152  NOTICE: Mode: 9

20:21:14 T:142385152  NOTICE: URL:

20:21:14 T:142385152  NOTICE: Name: Atlanta Braves Coverage FSSO-HD

20:21:14 T:142385152  NOTICE: Event-id = 14-318421-2012-05-25 content-id = 21482053 Name = Atlanta Braves Coverage FSSO-HD  Session = NTxxeeUuYUsOHEzC7C8yucjmTAA= cookieIp = 28382896 cookieFp = MWg3MzRxVGk5REFxcHd3RVdBZVFrSDQreEI0PXwxMzM3OTk1MjU3NjU2fGlwdD1lbWFpbC1wYXNzd29y​ZA%3D%3D scenario = FLASH_800K_400X448

20:21:15 T:142385152  NOTICE: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><user-verified-media-response xmlns="http://services.bamnetworks.com/media/types/2.1" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><status-code>-1000</status-code></user-verified-media-response>

20:21:15 T:142385152   ERROR: Error Type: <type 'exceptions.AttributeError'>

20:21:15 T:142385152   ERROR: Error Contents: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'string'

20:21:15 T:142385152   ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):

                                              File "/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/addons/plugin.video.mlbmc/default.py", line 1105, in <module>

                                                getGameURL(name,event,content,session,cookieIp,cookieFp)

                                              File "/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/addons/plugin.video.mlbmc/default.py", line 792, in getGameURL

                                                name = TeamCodes[soup.find('domain-attribute', attrs={'name' : "away_team_id"}).string][0]+' @ '+TeamCodes[soup.find('domain-attribute', attrs={'name' : "home_team_id"}).string][0]+' '+str(dateStr.today)

                                            AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'string'

20:21:15 T:90894336   ERROR: Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 0, path [plugin://plugin.video.mlbmc/?url=&mode=9&name=Atlanta+Braves+Coverage+FSSO-HD+&event=14-318421-2012-05-25&content=21482053&session=NTxxeeUuYUsOHEzC7C8yucjmTAA%3D&cookieIp=28382896&cookieFp=MWg3MzRxVGk5REFxcHd3RVdBZVFrSDQreEI0PXwxMzM3OTk1MjU3NjU2fGlwdD1lbWF​pbC1wYXNzd29yZA%253D%253D&scenario=FLASH_800K_400X448]

Any ideas? Thanks!

sdsnyr94 Fan Posts: 417 Joined: Aug 2009 Reputation: 1 Location: Greensboro, NC	2012-05-17 21:06 Post: #192 Could you use the individual logos on the game selection screen, so it would look like: Mets Logo @ Reds Logo 7:30pm Pirates Logo @ Braves Logo Archived etc... Similar to the right side of the ATV2's native app: http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/images/subscripti...4apple.png (This post was last modified: 2012-05-17 21:12 by sdsnyr94.)
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divingmule Posting Freak Posts: 1,269 Joined: Oct 2008 Reputation: 54	2012-05-18 23:52 Post: #193 No, with plugin style add-on your limited, basically, to a label, thumbnail, and fanart.
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