[larshenric]

Hi All,

I'm running Kodi 14.2 on an OUYA. I have the most current version of the addon. I have an mlb.tv account with the credentials inputed, but the live radio broadcast and live video broadcast don't work for me. I've tried the log out and restart, lower resolution settings, reinstalling the addon, and reconfiguring Kodi, but can't seem to stream live.

Can anyone provide some help please?

Thank you,

tharer404

I think you need a newer kodi version than 14.x on your device... Btw: What is an "OUYA"...?

[Klattsy]

Update 2016.4.7 Released
- Replaced Highlights option with Recap (~3 min) and Condensed (~15 min) options for archive games
- The date menu item can now be selected in order to watch the entire days recaps or condensed clips

This is awesome. Perfect. Thank you.

Only other suggestion - can you mark which game is the Free Game of the Day?

This is better than any native app i have used. Awesome job man. Thanks.

[eracknaphobia]

Only other suggestion - can you mark which game is the Free Game of the Day?

Added to the "to do" list

[Kanipek]

I don't know if it is possible but if you can add a buffer that would be awesome.

[eracknaphobia]

I don't know if it is possible but if you can add a buffer that would be awesome.

I am not aware of any way to set the buffer size of an hls stream. But I'm open to suggestions.

[siuside]

I think an option should be there to just load the master manifest (in addition to the current setup of being able to choose a bitrate). Should adjust to the best streams according to an individual's connection and always be in sync with browsers. This goes for all of your great addons.

[Common Man]

Thanks for the latest updates, especially the messages.

Is there any way for the add-on, based on the MLB.TV responses, to differentiate between COMPLETED blacked out games that are not yet available as part of archives (in-market) and when they eventually become available on the same day? Since they become available at some unpredictable time ("roughly" 90 minutes after end of game but varies), right now one needs to keep trying to play it until you don't get the blacked out message if you want to watch it as soon as the black out is lifted.

Or alternatively, if they have some ETA info when you try it that can be included in the message.

Not really expecting the above in MLB reponses but if it is available, it will be very useful in the add-on to prevent repeated tries.

[eracknaphobia]

I think an option should be there to just load the master manifest (in addition to the current setup of being able to choose a bitrate). Should adjust to the best streams according to an individual's connection and always be in sync with browsers. This goes for all of your great addons.

If you choose "Best Stream Available" quality setting the manifest file is sent to the player currently. There is no need for me to pick a stream inside since kodi /ffmpeg plays the best one automatically. I don't think it bases it off connection. It just finds the highest (best) bitrate and plays it. FFmpeg can't switch streams on the fly like the browser or official apps (yet).

[eracknaphobia]

Thanks for the latest updates, especially the messages.

Is there any way for the add-on, based on the MLB.TV responses, to differentiate between COMPLETED blacked out games that are not yet available as part of archives (in-market) and when they eventually become available on the same day? Since they become available at some unpredictable time ("roughly" 90 minutes after end of game but varies), right now one needs to keep trying to play it until you don't get the blacked out message if you want to watch it as soon as the black out is lifted.

Or alternatively, if they have some ETA info when you try it that can be included in the message.

Not really expecting the above in MLB reponses but if it is available, it will be very useful in the add-on to prevent repeated tries.

I'll see what I can do. The NHL blackout period is 48 hours from the end of the game, is the MLB really only 90 minutes from end of the game?

[siuside]

I think an option should be there to just load the master manifest (in addition to the current setup of being able to choose a bitrate). Should adjust to the best streams according to an individual's connection and always be in sync with browsers. This goes for all of your great addons.

If you choose "Best Stream Available" quality setting the manifest file is sent to the player currently. There is no need for me to pick a stream inside since kodi /ffmpeg plays the best one automatically. I don't think it bases it off connection. It just finds the highest (best) bitrate and plays it. FFmpeg can't switch streams on the fly like the browser or official apps (yet).

Thanks for the insight. I did some searching and this does appear to be an ffmpeg bottleneck. Closest I could find some documentation was a support ticket for ffmpeg to implement adaptive bitrate decoding https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/2886 (domain is down at the moment)

[eracknaphobia]

I think an option should be there to just load the master manifest (in addition to the current setup of being able to choose a bitrate). Should adjust to the best streams according to an individual's connection and always be in sync with browsers. This goes for all of your great addons.

If you choose "Best Stream Available" quality setting the manifest file is sent to the player currently. There is no need for me to pick a stream inside since kodi /ffmpeg plays the best one automatically. I don't think it bases it off connection. It just finds the highest (best) bitrate and plays it. FFmpeg can't switch streams on the fly like the browser or official apps (yet).

Thanks for the insight. I did some searching and this does appear to be an ffmpeg bottleneck. Closest I could find some documentation was a support ticket for ffmpeg to implement adaptive bitrate decoding https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/2886 (domain is down at the moment)

Another big one would be to be able to tell ffmpeg where to start a live stream (Play from beginning). Currently a live stream is started 3 segments back from the current segment, which might also explain why kodi is 20-30 seconds behind the web version. I believe ffmpeg allows you to set the desired segment to start at but with kodi there really isn't a way to "talk" directly to ffmpeg and there isn't a way for the addon to tell kodi to tell ffmpeg to start at a specific segment. This might have been over looked as most of the time, in the non-sports world, starting a truly live stream some time in the past wouldn't make much since, like a news channel that runs 24 /7. I don't know just my two cents, I hope that this can be added to the core player someday though.

[tonywagner]

Just found this add-on, and wanted to say: This. Is. AWESOME!

Being able to get the new 5000 kbps, 60 FPS stream on any device I want is fantastic.

So is easily being able to click on a future game to check my blackout status for it.

[tonywagner]

Also, if anyone wants Kodi to start on the "Today's Games" list in this add-on, you can use another add-on called Super Favorites from the default Kodi repo.

- Install Super Favorites, then add a Super Favorite for the "Today's Games" item.
- Then go to the Super Favorites add-on, find that entry and "Add to Kodi Favorites" in its context menu.
- Now if you pull your standard favorites.xml file, you will see your entry as a big long "PlayMedia" command
- Decode the whole "PlayMedia" command here in this HTML entity decoder (to properly display the double quotes and ampersands):
https://mothereff.in/html-entities
- Finally, copy that into an autoexec.py file as follows (with the "..." obviously replaced with the decoded PlayMedia command you found above):

Code:

import xbmc
xbmc.executebuiltin('XBMC.PlayMedia(...)')

[siuside]

If you choose "Best Stream Available" quality setting the manifest file is sent to the player currently. There is no need for me to pick a stream inside since kodi /ffmpeg plays the best one automatically. I don't think it bases it off connection. It just finds the highest (best) bitrate and plays it. FFmpeg can't switch streams on the fly like the browser or official apps (yet).

Thanks for the insight. I did some searching and this does appear to be an ffmpeg bottleneck. Closest I could find some documentation was a support ticket for ffmpeg to implement adaptive bitrate decoding https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/2886 (domain is down at the moment)

Another big one would be to be able to tell ffmpeg where to start a live stream (Play from beginning). Currently a live stream is started 3 segments back from the current segment, which might also explain why kodi is 20-30 seconds behind the web version. I believe ffmpeg allows you to set the desired segment to start at but with kodi there really isn't a way to "talk" directly to ffmpeg and there isn't a way for the addon to tell kodi to tell ffmpeg to start at a specific segment. This might have been over looked as most of the time, in the non-sports world, starting a truly live stream some time in the past wouldn't make much since, like a news channel that runs 24 /7. I don't know just my two cents, I hope that this can be added to the core player someday though.

Finally that explains that 20-30 second delay ! Hopefully the core devs implement this.

[bunglebungle]

Even if I manually select an SD bitrate, or use 'Always Ask' and select a small one, I'm still getting a 720p/60 on highlights and games. I want a smaller stream for the background at work so I don't use so much bandwidth. Has anyone gotten a smaller stream to work?

Do you know if it's possible to support jumping to a certain inning in a live game? mlbviewer and the old mlbmc-hls plugin supported this.