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Hi Gang,
Long time appreciator, first time poster. First off, sweet plugin!!
I wanted to echo the request for a similar plugin for Milb.tv (the minor league version). I'm a web developer, but am happy to climb learning curve mountain to help out. Still digging through source to figure out how you're actually interfacing with MLB.tv to get information and eventually the stream...
Catching the Buffalo Bisons via XBMC would be tremendous! If someone wants to PM me into the right direction, it'd be much appreciated.
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@Divingmule- Looks like this last update fixed my problem. I confirmed that it was fixed on my raspberry pi as it wouldn't show list of options for each game but did right after I updated it. I too though am getting random times when the video just stops and goes back to the addon screen. Sometimes it can be 15 min, sometimes 5 min...
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I am finding that whenever I install the HLS version of the plugin (I still have the old mlbmc) or enable HLS inside the old mlbmc that I cannot connect. Some information on exactly what is going on though.
I proxy all of my xbmc through one of my servers in the U.S.. HTTP/HTTPS all forward properly through squid however this fails for HLS. My assumption is that since XBMC is using an outside binary (mlbs) for this connection that it is not following the xbmc proxy. That would be why the connection is failed out as the system is logged into mlbtv from one IP and the stream attempt for HLS from another entirely. Is my assumption on the functionality of the binary correct or do I have some other issue? MLBMC works properly with the 2400K stream but the mono audio is killing my ears.
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Hmm... the only thing is, I don't want to provide a way for people to work around blackouts. If it's done outside of this add-on, it's out of my hands. MLB being seemingly open to noncommercial apps using their api's and such, I feel we must play by the rules.
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That's fine, I'll just fork it. As is, it runs within XBMC but does not follow XBMC. If XBMC is configured to use a proxy, whatever you run within XBMC should utilize that proxy and not be outside of the application. That's just my opinion.
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2013-04-28, 22:08
(This post was last modified: 2013-04-28, 22:18 by Glanzick.)
I'm having some trouble with the speed fluctuating when using this addon (I've tried both the MLBMC and the MLB (mlb-hls) addon). It goes fast and slow, fast and slow, quite quickly and distracts from watching. Sometimes the archived games work fine, sometimes they don't, but the live games always have this issue. It also happens regardless of what the bitrate is (I have it set to 800 kb/s now for testing).
On the codecinfo overlay, on the C line the value a/v (which is the audio/video sync difference) fluctuates quickly from around 0.1 to -0.1 and vq (the video queue) rests around 99%. FPS bounces from 26-30. In contrast, for the NHL plugin, the a/v stays constant around 0.02 and the vq stays around 99% and the FPS is 29.97 constantly.
Any idea what could be causing this problem? The CPU isn't stressed, and the internet connection handles other video streams fine.
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I can feel your pain Glanzick. I have similar problems on my windows box with certain streams but not MLB streams.
The only thing I might suggest you try, is to turn off hardware acceleration, if your cpu can handle it.
You're likely to get better help asking in the support forum for your OS. Playback issues like this aren't related to the add-on itself, the add-on basically just tells the XBMC player to play(stream) a URL. Issues like yours would be more to do with hardware, OS, codecs .... and the such.
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Also, if I accidentally select the wrong game, there is no way to go back to the game listings screen directly. If I hit the back key on my remote, it still pops up the innings screen before I can back out of it.
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2013-04-30, 21:22
(This post was last modified: 2013-04-30, 21:23 by sdsnyr94.)
OK, so I tested 0.9 on my laptop and tried playing some archived games from yesterday. If I have the option for the innings start times enabled, it appears that most of the times that I select an inning it brings me to the 'Thanks for watching' screen. I was trying with the Mets-Marlins game (SNY-HD feed), and could not get anything past the bottom of the 2nd to play the game feed. I also tried with the Pittsburgh-Milwaukee game, trying to play the 6th and 8th innings.
I also no longer see the option for specifying a temp directory..... this *may* cause an issue with openelec.