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As a user of this add-on from day one, I may be able to shed some light on a couple of things. There were 2 different versions of the add-on because the HLS version required the binary add-on to acquire the HD feeds, and an add-on like that could not be added to the official XBMC repository (Because of the binary add-on, and it's not platform agnostic). The version most of us are currently using 2.0.7x was the last non-HLS version that was in the official repository.

The HLS version of the plugin has an option to turn it off. If the default is off one that cannot or does not want the HLS binary can just never set it up and it will work without it. I don't know if that would satisify the repository requirements or not. The defaults would be platform-agnostic.

I am aware of the mlb-hls version. The version that I have has the option to turn HLS on, but I don't think it does anything. I downloaded the HLS version from divingmule's Google code version and compiled the mlbhls executable in Fedora. It compiled but when I ran it I got "encryption error". I then gave up but want to take a look at it again. I know that both versions are very similar. The hls version calls the executable. The non-hls version does not seem to do anything but add something to the address but I doubt it does anything.

The mlb-hls file that was/is used has not been updated for a couple of years and originally only worked on Linux, however there have been some modifications

Hopefully someone from mlbviewer will pick it up, or, as mentioned later in that thread, get VLC/mplayer/ffmpeg to support this flavor of hls.

A better option would be to completely re-implement it in Python. Unfortunately decryption goes way over my head so I would not know where to start.

to make it compatible on Windows and the Raspberry Pi. The mlb-hls file would retrieve the feed and store the file in a temp directory (location of temp directory was changeable in the settings), and MLBMC would play from that file. There were a couple of issues with this approach... the first being if you are on a device with limited storage space. I had an ION PC running Openelec installed on a 4GB USB drive and while watching a game it would crash about half-way

If somehow we could get it to use a ring buffer that would help, but I have no idea if that's possible or how to get mlbhls and Kodi to interact on that.

Yeah I noticed that there were several executables in the .zip file. To get it to work on the Pi you need ARM versions of the executable. I don't know what ring buffers are.

the latter since it would make it platform agnostic, and should avoid the issues I mentioned. Also, is there a better way to handle the log in? It appears that each time I switch games it performs a log in, making it easy to lock the account. I know you mentioned a log out button but I do not see how it will avoid this issue because it seems to be the number of login attempts in a short time.... not the number of concurrent logins.

I intended to do some testing on that because I noticed I was getting some "too many login" errors when restarting the video multiple times. It appears the intention of the code is to keep the login credentials, but it may not be working that way. My testing wasn't rigorous but when I was flipping between Chrome and Kodi and logging out each time it did seem to help with the lockout. But reducing unnecessary logins is the goal.

Hmm interesting. Yeah I looked at the code and it looks dubious at best. I added debugging to the code and I can debug in Eclipse. Maybe I can track down the issue - without locking myself out of course which is a huge PITA.

You also mentioned about the Live DVR function... in which the only feature we had was just the ability to select the innings. Rewinding or fast forwarding really did not work as you were only limited to the data that you had stored in the temp directory. If you set to buffer to 30 seconds before beginning playback, it gave you a little wiggle room, but really nothing to write home about. I have mentioned it here before, Timewasted's NHL add-on did a fantastic job of creating the Live DVR... I could watch a game from the start at any time, and easily skip the commercials and intermissions.

I thought about investigating that, too. When a game is archived the rtmp version works well - 960x540 is fine, and skipping around works great. I'd love to save the whole stream when watching a game live - just buffer it all and be able to skip back and forth. One could pause and let some time build up then come back to it. But I don't know enough about Kodi or video streams at the moment. I will look into that addon and see if there are any similarities that will be helpful. Or erhaps capturing some network traffic with MLB.tv's Live DVR on a Windows box to see what sort of requests it is sending will help.

Ah. Yeah this is something that needs investigation.