[willynilly]

Using the plugin works great! It's the only way I've been able to get the 60fps streams on my PC. Is there any way to access those high quality streams through a normal web browser? I'm still bothered by the fact that every device seems to get 60fps except an ordinary PC.

[Dixon Butz]

Using the plugin works great! It's the only way I've been able to get the 60fps streams on my PC. Is there any way to access those high quality streams through a normal web browser? I'm still bothered by the fact that every device seems to get 60fps except an ordinary PC.

Only way to get 60fps on a PC is with Kodi and this addon.
No browser can do it yet.

[relayer35]

So do I still need to use a service like Unlocator for this?

Yes

[StinDaWg]

Is there any "trick" to getting better than 960x540 2400k on the MLB Network live stream? That's the highest quality the m3u8 shows.

I tried replacing master_wired.m3u8 with master_wired60, master_wired_60, and a couple other guesses but no go.

http://m.mlb.com/network/live

[toejam]

Is there any "trick" to getting better than 960x540 2400k on the MLB Network live stream? That's the highest quality the m3u8 shows.

I tried replacing master_wired.m3u8 with master_wired60, master_wired_60, and a couple other guesses but no go.

http://m.mlb.com/network/live

What sort of text editor or file viewer are you using to look at the contents of master_wired.m3u8?

Because I see the 3000k quality in there, plain as day, which is 960x720. That seems to be the highest quality for the live stream. The 3000k video looks pretty good to me, but all that was on there when I checked it was that mad dog guy yelling about something.

[StinDaWg]

Is there any "trick" to getting better than 960x540 2400k on the MLB Network live stream? That's the highest quality the m3u8 shows.

I tried replacing master_wired.m3u8 with master_wired60, master_wired_60, and a couple other guesses but no go.

http://m.mlb.com/network/live

What sort of text editor or file viewer are you using to look at the contents of master_wired.m3u8?

Because I see the 3000k quality in there, plain as day, which is 960x720. That seems to be the highest quality for the live stream. The 3000k video looks pretty good to me, but all that was on there when I checked it was that mad dog guy yelling about something.

I do see a 3000k in the m3u8, but for some reason Livestreamer only rips 2400k 960x540 as best option.

How are you downloading it?

If you look at the m3u8 it actually lists the 3000k stream as BANDWIDTH=2400000. I guess Livestreamer picks the wrong one since it's mislabeled by MLB. It should say BANDWIDTH=3000000.

FFmpeg works, do you know how to force Livestreamer to pick the 960x720 stream?

#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-STREAM-INFROGRAM-ID=1, BANDWIDTH=1200000
MLB_VIDEO_MLBN_FAUX_LINEAR_STREAM_1_MLB_Network_Linear_Stream_Tuesday_20160913/1200K/1200_slide.m3u8
#EXT-X-STREAM-INFROGRAM-ID=1, BANDWIDTH=1800000
MLB_VIDEO_MLBN_FAUX_LINEAR_STREAM_1_MLB_Network_Linear_Stream_Tuesday_20160913/1800K/1800_slide.m3u8
#EXT-X-STREAM-INFROGRAM-ID=1, BANDWIDTH=2400000
MLB_VIDEO_MLBN_FAUX_LINEAR_STREAM_1_MLB_Network_Linear_Stream_Tuesday_20160913/2400K/2400_slide.m3u8
#EXT-X-STREAM-INFROGRAM-ID=1, BANDWIDTH=2400000
MLB_VIDEO_MLBN_FAUX_LINEAR_STREAM_1_MLB_Network_Linear_Stream_Tuesday_20160913/3000K/3000_slide.m3u8
#EXT-X-STREAM-INFROGRAM-ID=1, BANDWIDTH=500000
MLB_VIDEO_MLBN_FAUX_LINEAR_STREAM_1_MLB_Network_Linear_Stream_Tuesday_20160913/500K/500_slide.m3u8
#EXT-X-STREAM-INFROGRAM-ID=1, BANDWIDTH=800000
MLB_VIDEO_MLBN_FAUX_LINEAR_STREAM_1_MLB_Network_Linear_Stream_Tuesday_20160913/800K/800_slide.m3u8

[toejam]

do you know how to force Livestreamer to pick the 960x720 stream?

When testing before, I used my custom hls player that I use for mlb.tv

You're right, for whatever reason*, livestreamer does not parse "master_wired.m3u8" sufficiently enough in order to find the 3000K variant.
However, livestreamer does work if you directly use the url for the 3000_slide.m3u8 variant as input to livestreamer.

I just checked it, and it works 1000%. You'll have to use the "hls" livestreamer plugin (rather than "hlsvariant") when using the url for the 3000_slide.m3u8 variant as input to livestreamer.

*The reason is probably because, as you say, two qualities share the same bandwidth labeling.

[StinDaWg]

Won't MLB_VIDEO_MLBN_FAUX_LINEAR_STREAM_1_MLB_Network_Linear_Stream_Tuesday_20160913/3000K/3000_slide.m3u8 expire tomorrow since it has the date coded? I guess I can try to write a batch file that modifies the day/date.

Edit: It's after 12am ET and the Wednesday url isn't live yet. Not sure if this is going to be possible to script, I may just have to use ffmpeg instead.

[toejam]

The variant urls usually change about once a week, although not always.

If ffmpeg is good enough for your use case then use it.

Of course it wouldn't be that much work to always just download the master first, filter out the 3000K url, and pass it to livestreamer.

[StinDaWg]

I set up a .bat file to download MLB Quick Pitch using Windows Task Scheduler from 1am-2am daily, so the url needs to be the same for it to work properly. So far the main .m3u8 url hasn't changed since I've been doing this.

I'll just use ffmpeg then since this can't be automated with Livestreamer for the 720p stream due to the incorrectly coded m3u8.

[toejam]

Sounds like a plan. ffmpeg is perfectly adequate for that.

Is the exact same episode of Quick Pitch repeated several times overnight? Is there no difference at all from the airings between 1am-10am ET?

The master url doesn't change, the variants inside it do. But they don't change daily. For example, the "Tuesday" variants you see inside the master now will be exactly the same well beyond Tuesday.

[StinDaWg]

Yes, it's the same episode all night.

[sylvestk]

Is anyone successfully running this addon on Kodi v17 Kryton build?

I'm running Krypton and the addon seems to operate fine until I choose the specific stream I want to watch at which point nothing happens. If I select the stream again, I get an error message. This is clipped from my log...

I'm getting the same error for v17 Krypton (Windows) and came here to see if there were any possible updates.

[lowridin_guy]

anyone else having issues with the add-on buffering and getting kicked out during playback?
I've tested this add-on with a couple of different devices and get the same result. I've tried reducing the quality of the stream with no luck.

A speedtest on my devices show that I should have enough throughput to support 5000kbps but even at 2500kbps I'm still having issues.

[hhqjdaasc]

anyone else having issues with the add-on buffering and getting kicked out during playback?
I've tested this add-on with a couple of different devices and get the same result. I've tried reducing the quality of the stream with no luck.

A speedtest on my devices show that I should have enough throughput to support 5000kbps but even at 2500kbps I'm still having issues.

I'm having that problem with a Samsung 10.1" tablet but it's working perfectly for me at 5000kbps on a cheap Android TV box connected to a HDTV via HDMI. On the Android box, the quality of the video from this add-on is head & shoulders above the quality that I get from the official AtBat app.