[tonywagner]

Most addons with a menu don't auto-play videos on start, and I think this is a reason why -- if a menu never loads, there's no menu to go back to, and you sort of get locked out of the menu altogether!

It might be best to move auto-play functionality into a separate addon. The separate addon could be dead-simple, just a couple lines of code to require the MLBTV addon and call it like:

Code:

xbmc.executebuiltin('PlayMedia("plugin://plugin.video.mlbtv/?mode=111")'

Then mode 111 in the MLBTV addon could call the auto-play function, with the one-time per day limit removed.

I'll give it a try, thanks!

Even easier: we can make a list in the addon of dedicated team live streams (with logos!), and then users can add them to their Kodi favorites, etc.

I'm working on some addon changes now, so I'll keep this in mind.

[tonywagner]

It's been happening a lot on the Mets vs Pirates game I'm watching.

4/17/24, Pirates @ Mets, SNY video, at 3:28:20

It's also happened on most of the commercials before that -- this is just the one I'm looking at right now.

The commercial itself is just this Google Cloud AI one (image below)

Thanks. That Google "commercial" is just their new break slate (replacing the old "Commercial Break In Progress" screen).

The "skip commercials" option in the add-on actually looks for where MLB dynamically inserts ads into the stream and skips those times, so it's possible they're not inserting ads at every break and so the add-on just plays the slate.

You could try instead the "skip breaks" option in the add-on -- that skips all inning breaks based on logged game events, so it's probably more consistent.

I was using skip all breaks for every game I've watched so far this year. But, today I decided to try skip commercials instead and it's actually skipped all of them! Maybe just coincidence though.

Anyway, if there's any extra debug/logging thing I can do to help if it happens again let me know. Honestly even if the skip doesn't work automatically just being able to skip them manually beats the MLB site with forced commercials!

Can you go back to the 4/17 PIT@NYM archived stream and recreate the issue? Then let me know the timestamp where the "skip breaks" option fails to skip a break.

[thromer]

Most addons with a menu don't auto-play videos on start, and I think this is a reason why -- if a menu never loads, there's no menu to go back to, and you sort of get locked out of the menu altogether!

It might be best to move auto-play functionality into a separate addon. The separate addon could be dead-simple, just a couple lines of code to require the MLBTV addon and call it like:

Code:

xbmc.executebuiltin('PlayMedia("plugin://plugin.video.mlbtv/?mode=111")'

Then mode 111 in the MLBTV addon could call the auto-play function, with the one-time per day limit removed.

I'll give it a try, thanks!

Even easier: we can make a list in the addon of dedicated team live streams (with logos!), and then users can add them to their Kodi favorites, etc.

I'm working on some addon changes now, so I'll keep this in mind.

Sounds cool! I got the approach you initially suggested working here: https://github.com/eracknaphobia/plugin....tv/pull/70, use it as you see fit.

[alasseter]

New to this thread. Can someone show me the link to instructions on how I can install this app? I've been looking for an MLB ad-killer for quite a while. Thanks!

[tonywagner]

New to this thread. Can someone show me the link to instructions on how I can install this app? I've been looking for an MLB ad-killer for quite a while. Thanks!

Well, first you'll need to install Kodi. https://kodi.tv/download/

Once that is installed on your device, run Kodi, go the "Addons" section, and you should be able to install the unofficial MLB.TV addon.

[mlbmlb]

I installed everything and I am able to watch. However, if I am watching a previous day game, I still get that Google AI screen. I don't see any options to skip ads or skip breaks.

[tonywagner]

I installed everything and I am able to watch. However, if I am watching a previous day game, I still get that Google AI screen. I don't see any options to skip ads or skip breaks.

When you select a game, you should see a series of prompts before the video starts.

First prompt is to select the stream you want (Home TV, Away TV, Home Radio, etc.).

Next prompt is to pick your desired starting point (live, beginning, inning). To see this prompt, you need to leave "Ask to Catch Up, start from beginning, or from inning" enabled in the addon settings.

After that, you should see a prompt to choose a skip option (skip commercials, skip breaks, skip non-action pitches). To see this prompt, you need to leave "Ask to automatically skip breaks" enabled in the addon settings.

[mlbmlb]

got it to work. thanks so much!

[morick02]

What does changing the USA zip code or country for blackout labels do in the add-on for Kodi? I have them set to default with USA zip code at zero and country as USA but what if I change them? I have been blacked out on my Android device but not on my Roku so curious if changing the default values would do anything.

[tonywagner]

What does changing the USA zip code or country for blackout labels do in the add-on for Kodi? I have them set to default with USA zip code at zero and country as USA but what if I change them? I have been blacked out on my Android device but not on my Roku so curious if changing the default values would do anything.

Those options are strictly for labeling blackouts in the game list. They don't affect what games you will actually be blacked out from, so there's no advantage to changing them from your actual zip code or country.

[jpage4500]

Hi,

Sorry if this is mentioned in the thread but I tried to search and didn't find an answer.

What do these 2 settings do when disabled? (both are enabled by default)
- "Ask to Catch Up, start from beginning, or from inning"
- "Ask to automatically skip breaks"

I'm guessing the first one, when disabled will always start from the beginning?

What will the second one do when disabled? Will it skip only commercials or one of the other options (all breaks, nothing, etc)?

Obviously I can try both and will.. just wanted to ask what it's supposed to do.

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Also, I tried using the "Auto select favorite teams's steam" option and that didn't work. I have the Mets as a favorite team and when playing Mets vs Cardinals from 5/7/24 I got the Cardinals TV network stream.

[tonywagner]

Hi,

Sorry if this is mentioned in the thread but I tried to search and didn't find an answer.

What do these 2 settings do when disabled? (both are enabled by default)
- "Ask to Catch Up, start from beginning, or from inning"
- "Ask to automatically skip breaks"

I'm guessing the first one, when disabled will always start from the beginning?

What will the second one do when disabled? Will it skip only commercials or one of the other options (all breaks, nothing, etc)?

Obviously I can try both and will.. just wanted to ask what it's supposed to do.

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Also, I tried using the "Auto select favorite teams's steam" option and that didn't work. I have the Mets as a favorite team and when playing Mets vs Cardinals from 5/7/24 I got the Cardinals TV network stream.

If you disable "Ask to Catch Up, start from beginning, or from inning", I think it will always start a live game from the current live point, or an archive game from the beginning.

If you disable "Ask to automatically skip breaks" it will just skip that prompt and there will be no automatic break-skipping performed at all.

I see the same error with "Auto-select favorite/home video stream" for that game. I'll look into it.

[zalo]

I have been getting errors after selecting which feed to watch. Did a clean install and watched a full game without issues last night. Went to watch tonight's game and got an error again. I am able to watch the game on my computer.

https://paste.osmc.tv/cawiwilori

[tonywagner]

Also, I tried using the "Auto select favorite teams's steam" option and that didn't work. I have the Mets as a favorite team and when playing Mets vs Cardinals from 5/7/24 I got the Cardinals TV network stream.

If you download and install the addon from the zip file here, this should be fixed now:
https://github.com/tonywagner/plugin.vid...v/releases

[tonywagner]

I have been getting errors after selecting which feed to watch. Did a clean install and watched a full game without issues last night. Went to watch tonight's game and got an error again. I am able to watch the game on my computer.

https://paste.osmc.tv/cawiwilori

Looks like the addon's request for a stream URL is getting denied. Are you running a VPN or proxy?