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It was my experience that national blackouts weren't super enforced. I'm an skc fan living in Iowa, so I can't comment on local blackouts. But as for national blackouts....... I signed up for cable specifically to watch the MLS Cup final, but while watching that, there was a little lull in the match and I switched over to my XBMC machine, fired up the Live add-on, and there was the game! I experienced that on a couple different occasions throughout the season, with games on the 2 or 3 national networks (which shall remain unnamed) that carried matches this season.
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New to XMBC. Before I purchase a G-Box Midnight MX2 from gboxcanada.com, MLS live add on will work on this machine?
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Hi, I use it on the pi and it works fine -- you do need a Gotham build though I think... certainly at least Frodo (v12). Anyway, I don't imagine you'll have much trouble on the gbox if it works with stock xbmc.
You do need to pay for the service though -- I checked out the site you mentioned and despite their claims of never paying another bill again, you will need to shell out for MLS live -- well worth it though, IMO.
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ngoal
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Love this add on but it doesn't seem to be working anymore. It worked fine last week but this week none of the streams will load on frodo or Gotham.
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ksosez
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2014-04-20, 02:43
(This post was last modified: 2014-04-20, 03:40 by ksosez.)
They are pushing a fix tonight.
If you want to fix it manually, edit the file mlslive.py and look for the line in getGameLiveStream:
return stream_url.split('?')[0]
and replace it with:
return stream_url
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yeah, sorry everyone.
I've fixed it and requested the pull into the main repo -- should be fixed very soon!
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Update came through, issue resolved. Thanks!!
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Hello everyone,
Looks like the service isn't marking games as live, so the plugin wont play them. I'm aware and will have a fix in soon.
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OK, about the one hour offset -- for reasons unknown to me, the MLS live service started listing their times in GMT+1 (historically its been gmt+0). Maybe it changed with daylight savings or something...
Anyway, I have a fix but I've just requested a pull for the playback issue, so it'll show up in 1.0.10
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The listing of games from MLS this week includes a match involving Ivory Coast using the French name for the country. This name has a unicode character in it which is causing the problem when passed to urlencode. The string from the listing is:
u"C\xf4te d'Ivoire at Bosnia and Herzegovina (05/30 21:30)"
Unfortunately I don't have time tonight to do a pull request, but a quick temporary fix is to open the file mlslive.py in the addon's folder (in linux, ~/.xbmc/addons/plugins/plugin.video.mlslive/) and change the last line in getGameString from:
return game_str
to
return game_str.encode('utf-8').strip()
That is line 298 in the version I'm using.