2009-01-12, 21:46
I hope I'm not the only baseball fan around here. Last season, some fellow MLB fans wrote a python-based application that allows subscribers to the MLB.com service MLB.tv to watch and listen to baseball games in Linux. The project developed out of a 60-page forum post which you can check out here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/...ost3139394
Anyway, the project is called mlbviewer and is on Sourceforge:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mlbviewer
It is currently console-based and parses the schedule and feed info from MLB.com and displays a schedule allowing the user to select a live game and watch it, or stream archived games. It supports highlighting favorite teams and config options for MLB.com's regional blackouts.
In short, it uses a console frontend to obtain the appropriate game's mms:// URL and pass that to mplayer (or whatever external player is specified).
I would LOVE to have this integrated with XBMC, even if it's just the frontend. I'm not a programmer, but it seems to me that since mlbviewer is already written in Python, it should be relatively easy to make a script/plugin out of it.
Anyone up for it? At the very least, could someone take a cursory look and tell me how much work would be required to accomplish this? Thanks!
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/...ost3139394
Anyway, the project is called mlbviewer and is on Sourceforge:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mlbviewer
It is currently console-based and parses the schedule and feed info from MLB.com and displays a schedule allowing the user to select a live game and watch it, or stream archived games. It supports highlighting favorite teams and config options for MLB.com's regional blackouts.
In short, it uses a console frontend to obtain the appropriate game's mms:// URL and pass that to mplayer (or whatever external player is specified).
I would LOVE to have this integrated with XBMC, even if it's just the frontend. I'm not a programmer, but it seems to me that since mlbviewer is already written in Python, it should be relatively easy to make a script/plugin out of it.
Anyone up for it? At the very least, could someone take a cursory look and tell me how much work would be required to accomplish this? Thanks!