How many of you are enjoying watching mlb.tv on linux

[lbyrd33]

Over the last 3 years, one of the biggest things that I tried to get to work was watching mlb.tv on linux. I am now on my 2nd season using mplayer and I am having a blast watching the mets on their road to the world series. Next we need to figure out how to get mlb mosaic to work.

[Mateo]

so does it use mplayer in the browser? the plugin?

[lbyrd33]

Yeh, it uses in the browser plugin. The biggest problem that I observed was that websites like espn.com and mlb.com use a web browser window that needs both a mpeg player plugin and a flash player plugin. However, the firefox or any browser would be able to load up the flash plugin and then stop, thinking it had already done its job.

[JAPrufrock]

Nope, because my DSL isn't quite fast enough. However, I do listen to MLB audio. I needed to install mplayer and flash in order to be able to listen to it.

[tomlyn]

Over the last 3 years, one of the biggest things that I tried to get to work was watching mlb.tv on linux. I am now on my 2nd season using mplayer and I am having a blast watching the mets on their road to the world series. Next we need to figure out how to get mlb mosaic to work.

Hello,

By "mlb mosaic" do you mean those short free game high-light videos?
Any progress in making them work?

Thanks.

Another Mets fan in Hong Kong :)

[lbyrd33]

Hello,

By "mlb mosaic" do you mean those short free game high-light videos?
Any progress in making them work?

Thanks.

Another Mets fan in Hong Kong :)

No, mlb mosaic is the program they now offer from mlb.com with subscription where you can have all the games going on at one time and choose which one you want to watch in real time. To watch the highlights or anything else you need to have mplayer installed properly as well as macromedia flash. Let me know if you need some help.

[tomlyn]

No, mlb mosaic is the program they now offer from mlb.com with subscription where you can have all the games going on at one time and choose which one you want to watch in real time. To watch the highlights or anything else you need to have mplayer installed properly as well as macromedia flash. Let me know if you need some help.

Thank you lbyrd33,

I do appreciate if you can help!

I am using Feisty, which was upgraded from 6.10, I did not do clean install. There was no problem in upgrading.

I use Synaptic to manage all my packages. I have installed mplayer, mozilla-mplayer, flashplugin-nonfree. Using the Feisty automatic codec installation, I have installed lots of codecs, so that I can listen to mp3, and watch lots of avi files.

But I still can not watch the MLB highlight video clips. What's missing in my install?


Thank you.


Following is "about:plugins" result of my firefox. (sorry the format is lost when copy-paste)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------


Installed plug-ins
Find more information about browser plug-ins at mozilla.org.
Help for installing plug-ins is available from plugindoc.mozdev.org.


Windows Media Player Plugin

File name: mplayerplug-in-wmp.so
mplayerplug-in 3.31

Video Player Plug-in for QuickTime, RealPlayer and Windows Media Player streams using MPlayer
JavaScript Enabled and Using GTK2 Widgets

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/asx Media Files * Yes
video/x-ms-asf-plugin Media Files * Yes
video/x-msvideo AVI avi,* Yes
video/msvideo AVI avi,* Yes
application/x-mplayer2 Media Files * Yes
application/x-ms-wmv Microsoft WMV video wmv,* Yes
video/x-ms-asf Media Files asf,asx,* Yes
video/x-ms-wm Media Files wm,* Yes
video/x-ms-wmv Microsoft WMV video wmv,* Yes
audio/x-ms-wmv Windows Media wmv,* Yes
video/x-ms-wmp Windows Media wmp,* Yes
video/x-ms-wvx Windows Media wvx,* Yes
audio/x-ms-wax Windows Media wax,* Yes
audio/x-ms-wma Windows Media wma,* Yes
application/x-drm-v2 Windows Media asx,* Yes
audio/wav Microsoft wave file wav,* Yes
audio/x-wav Microsoft wave file wav,* Yes


Windows Media Player Plug-in 10 (compatible; Totem)

File name: libtotem-gmp-plugin.so
The Totem 2.18.1 plugin handles video and audio streams.

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-mplayer2 AVI video avi, wma, wmv Yes
video/x-ms-asf-plugin ASF video asf, wmv Yes
video/x-msvideo AVI video asf, wmv Yes
video/x-ms-asf ASF video asf Yes
video/x-ms-wmv WMV video wmv Yes
video/x-wmv WMV video wmv Yes
video/x-ms-wvx Playlist wmv Yes
video/x-ms-wm ASF video wmv Yes


Shockwave Flash

File name: libflashplayer.so
Shockwave Flash 9.0 r31

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf Yes
application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player spl Yes


Totem Web Browser Plugin 2.18.1

File name: libtotem-basic-plugin.so
The Totem 2.18.1 plugin handles video and audio streams.

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/ogg Ogg multimedia ogg Yes
video/mpeg MPEG video mpg, mpeg, mpe Yes
audio/wav WAV audio wav Yes
audio/mpeg MP3 audio mp3 Yes


DivX® Web Player

File name: libtotem-mully-plugin.so
The Totem 2.18.1 plugin handles video and audio streams.

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
video/divx AVI video divx Yes


QuickTime Plug-in 7.1.3

File name: libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so
The Totem 2.18.1 plugin handles video and audio streams.

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
video/quicktime QT video mov Yes
video/mp4 MPEG-4 video mp4 Yes
image/x-macpaint MacPaint Bitmap image pntg Yes
image/x-quicktime Macintosh Quickdraw/PICT drawing pict, pict1, pict2 Yes


QuickTime Plug-in 6.0 / 7

File name: mplayerplug-in-qt.so
mplayerplug-in 3.31

Video Player Plug-in for QuickTime, RealPlayer and Windows Media Player streams using MPlayer
JavaScript Enabled and Using GTK2 Widgets

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
video/quicktime Quicktime mov Yes
video/x-quicktime Quicktime mov Yes
image/x-quicktime Quicktime mov Yes
video/quicktime Quicktime mp4 Yes
video/quicktime Quicktime - Session Description Protocol sdp Yes
application/x-quicktimeplayer Quicktime mov Yes
application/smil SMIL smil Yes


RealPlayer 9

File name: mplayerplug-in-rm.so
mplayerplug-in 3.31

Video Player Plug-in for QuickTime, RealPlayer and Windows Media Player streams using MPlayer
JavaScript Enabled and Using GTK2 Widgets

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
audio/x-pn-realaudio RealAudio ram,rm Yes
application/vnd.rn-realmedia RealMedia rm Yes
application/vnd.rn-realaudio RealAudio ra,ram Yes
video/vnd.rn-realvideo RealVideo rv Yes
audio/x-realaudio RealAudio ra Yes
audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin RealAudio rpm Yes
application/smil SMIL smil Yes


mplayerplug-in 3.31

File name: mplayerplug-in.so
mplayerplug-in 3.31

Video Player Plug-in for QuickTime, RealPlayer and Windows Media Player streams using MPlayer
JavaScript Enabled and Using GTK2 Widgets

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
video/mpeg MPEG mpg,mpeg Yes
audio/mpeg MPEG mpg,mpeg Yes
video/x-mpeg MPEG mpg,mpeg Yes
video/x-mpeg2 MPEG2 mpv2,mp2ve Yes
audio/mpeg MPEG mpg,mpeg Yes
audio/x-mpeg MPEG mpg,mpeg Yes
audio/mpeg2 MPEG audio mp2 Yes
audio/x-mpeg2 MPEG audio mp2 Yes
video/mp4 MPEG 4 Video mp4 Yes
audio/mpeg3 MPEG audio mp3 Yes
audio/x-mpeg3 MPEG audio mp3 Yes
audio/x-mpegurl MPEG url m3u Yes
audio/mp3 MPEG audio mp3 Yes
application/x-ogg Ogg Vorbis Media ogg Yes
audio/ogg Ogg Vorbis Audio ogg Yes
application/ogg Ogg Vorbis / Ogg Theora ogg Yes
video/fli FLI animation fli,flc Yes
video/x-fli FLI animation fli,flc Yes
video/vnd.vivo VivoActive viv,vivo Yes
application/x-nsv-vp3-mp3 Nullsoft Streaming Video nsv Yes
audio/x-mod Soundtracker mod Yes
audio/basic Basic Audio File au,snd Yes
audio/x-basic Basic Audio File au,snd Yes


Java(TM) Plug-in 1.6.0-b105

File name: libjavaplugin_oji.so
Java(TM) Plug-in 1.6.0

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-java-vm Java Yes
application/x-java-applet Java Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.1 Java Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.1.1 Java Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.1.2 Java Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.1.3 Java Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.2 Java Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.2.1 Java Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.2.2 Java Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.3 Java Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.3.1 Java Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.4 Java Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.4.1 Java Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.4.2 Java Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.5 Java Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.6 Java Yes
application/x-java-applet;jpi-version=1.6 Java Yes
application/x-java-bean Java Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.1 Java Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.1.1 Java Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.1.2 Java Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.1.3 Java Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.2 Java Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.2.1 Java Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.2.2 Java Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.3 Java Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.3.1 Java Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.4 Java Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.4.1 Java Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.4.2 Java Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.5 Java Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.6 Java Yes
application/x-java-bean;jpi-version=1.6 Java Yes

[lbyrd33]

Thank you lbyrd33,

I do appreciate if you can help!

I am using Feisty, which was upgraded from 6.10, I did not do clean install. There was no problem in upgrading.

I use Synaptic to manage all my packages. I have installed mplayer, mozilla-mplayer, flashplugin-nonfree. Using the Feisty automatic codec installation, I have installed lots of codecs, so that I can listen to mp3, and watch lots of avi files.

But I still can not watch the MLB highlight video clips. What's missing in my install?


Thank you.

Could you post your /etc/mplayer.conf file. Also, could you describe to me what happens when you open up the highlight browser. Just a blank screen or whatever you observe.

[jarvis13]

I only watch one team and I get all the televised games anyways.

GO REDLEGS!

[tomlyn]

Could you post your /etc/mplayer.conf file. Also, could you describe to me what happens when you open up the highlight browser. Just a blank screen or whatever you observe.

I don't have /etc/mplayer.conf, but I have instead /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf, should I move it up? You can find my /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf below, it is the standard mplayer.conf file coming with the package.

When I click the video, the player window quickly (less than 0.2 sec) flashed a picture, then turns black. On bottom, it shows "Stopped: 0:00/0:00"

Thanks.

----------------- /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf ------------------------
#
# MPlayer configuration file
#
# Configuration files are read system-wide from /usr/local/etc/mplayer.conf
# and per user from ~/.mplayer/config, where per-user settings override
# system-wide settings, all of which are overrriden by the command line.
#
# The configuration file settings are the same as the command line
# options without the preceding '-'.
#
# See the CONFIGURATION FILES section in the man page
# for a detailed description of the syntax.


##################
# video settings #
##################

# Specify default video driver (see -vo help for a list).
#vo=xv

# Use SDL video with the aalib subdriver by default.
#vo = sdl:aalib

# FBdev driver:
#
# mode to use (read from fb.modes)
#fbmode = 640x480-120
#
# location of the fb.modes file
#fbmodeconfig = /etc/fb.modes

# Specify your monitor timings for the vesa and fbdev video output drivers.
# See /etc/X11/XF86Config for timings. Be careful; if you specify settings
# that exceed the capabilities of your monitor, you may damage it.
#
# horizontal frequency range (k stands for 1000)
#monitor-hfreq = 31.5k-50k,70k
#
# vertical frequency range
#monitor-vfreq = 50-90
#
# dotclock (or pixelclock) range (m stands for 1000000)
#monitor-dotclock = 30M-300M

# Start in fullscreen mode by default.
#fs=yes

# Change to a different videomode when going fullscreen.
#vm=yes

# Override the autodetected color depth, may need 'vm=yes' as well.
#bpp=0

# Enable software scaling (powerful CPU needed) for video output
# drivers that do not support hardware scaling.
#zoom=yes

# standard monitor size, with square pixels
#monitoraspect=4:3

# Use this for a widescreen monitor, non-square pixels.
#monitoraspect=16:9

# Keep the player window on top of all other windows.
#ontop=yes


##################
# audio settings #
##################

# Specify default audio driver (see -ao help for a list).
ao=alsa,

# Use SDL audio driver with the esd subdriver by default.
#ao = sdl:esd

# Specify the mixer device.
#mixer = /dev/mixer

# Resample the sound to 44100Hz with the lavcresample audio filter.
#af=lavcresample=44100

# Specify default audio codec (see -ac help for a list).
ac=mad,


##################
# other settings #
##################

# Drop frames to preserve audio/video sync.
#framedrop = yes

# Specify your preferred skin here (skins are searched for in
# /usr/local/share/mplayer/skins/<name> and ~/.mplayer/skins/<name>).
#skin = Abyss

# Resample the font alphamap.
# 0 plain white fonts
# 0.75 very narrow black outline (default)
# 1 narrow black outline
# 10 bold black outline
#ffactor = 0.75

# cache settings
#
# Use 8MB input cache by default.
#cache = 8192
#
# Prefill 20% of the cache before starting playback.
#cache-min = 20.0
#
# Prefill 50% of the cache before restarting playback after the cache emptied.
#cache-seek-min = 50

# DVD: Display English subtitles if available.
#slang = en

# DVD: Play English audio tracks if available.
#alang = en


# You can also include other configuration files.
#include = /path/to/the/file/you/want/to/include

[Baldy18]

hey guys i'm a noob here but I'm loving feisty fawn. Only problem I'm having is on cubs.mlb.com I'm able to view the short video clips but the window that is there when there is no clip shows nothing. Initially whe the page loads the upcoming games and starting pictures displays briefly and then disapears also quickly. Sorry to step on this thread but I felt it was related to the topic.

[mrgnash]

Not me. I think the broadcast of spectator sports is a pox.

[igknighted]

I am now on my 2nd season using mplayer and I am having a blast watching the mets on their road to the world series.

HA, you wish! :-P

[tomlyn]

Hi lbyrd33,

I have attached the screen shot of what my MLB video playing window. As has said before, it never get to play the video.

Thank you very much.

[lbyrd33]

Hi lbyrd33,

I have attached the screen shot of what my MLB video playing window. As has said before, it never get to play the video.

Thank you very much.

Ill try to get back to you later today, I am at work and I forgot my laptop.

[lbyrd33]

Not me. I think the broadcast of spectator sports is a pox.

Why?

[lbyrd33]

HA, you wish! :-P

Your braves are looking pretty good this year and I cant do any trash talking since they are winning the season series against the mets so far....so far!

[darweth]

Big time Mets fan here! ;) Though I prefer watching AL baseball in general, where I root for the Red Sox. Also have a soft spot for the Athletics and Twins. Got tickets to Oakland vs NY @ Shea June 22nd baby!

I watch most Mets games + many select AL games. Pretty much ignore the rest of the NL.

[Kingsley]

Is that stuff free?

[darweth]

Is that stuff free?

No.

[tomlyn]

Ill try to get back to you later today, I am at work and I forgot my laptop.

Hi lbyrd33,

Thank you very much for your time and willingness.

I have been making progress, although still can not solved the problem yet.

I found this website
http://zerlinna.blogweb.de/archives/73-Watching-Video-streams-mms-and-rtsp-protocol.html
and followed the instruction.

What I did was:
(1) add into firefox config:
network.protocol-handler.app.mms = /usr/bin/mplayer
network.protocol-handler.external.mms = true
(2) I have been able to find out that previously it is totem that was trying to open mms stream. I have uninstalled totem-plugin.
(3) set "debug=2" in /etc/mplayerplug-in.conf

Now when I click on the video, mplayerplug-in gets called, and in subsequence, the following messages are flashed. (I could not get the first message, since it is too fast)
(1)
(2) buffering mms:// ...
(3) connected
(4) buffering mmst:// ...
(5) connecting ...
(6) buffering http:// ...
(7) stopped

There is no any video or sound during this process, and the final screen is attached in this post.

Again, I have pretty much very standard Feisty installation.

I appreciate anyone who could help me. Thank you for considering this problem.

[tomlyn]

Ahha, SILLY me, I got it working now! :-P

The only thing I need to do from my last post is to click the "play" button. :oops:

Thank you lbyrd33, without your encouraging, I would not even want to dive into this. Now I don't need to carry my windows laptop to work any more :-$

[lbyrd33]

Ahha, SILLY me, I got it working now! :-P

The only thing I need to do from my last post is to click the "play" button. :oops:

Thank you lbyrd33, without your encouraging, I would not even want to dive into this. Now I don't need to carry my windows laptop to work any more :-$

Congratulations. If you are having any problems getting to go to full screen you can add this line to your mplayerplug-in.conf file:

zoom=yes

Also, if you still want to have totem installed but you will not need since you have mplayer working is to add the following line to your mplayerplug-in.conf file:

noembed=1

This will give mplayer preference to open up over totem. Im pretty sure these variables are right as I am not at my computer right now but you can go check them on the forums because that is where I figured everything out.

[lbyrd33]

I guess most linux users dont like baseball! I guess this could be a generalization.

[trippinnik]

Has anyone had any luck playing archive games? I am living out here in Japan and the blackout everything. I am able to view live clips, but the archives always play the intro over and over and over... it's killing me. I was up until 4 am listening to the mets get destroyed last night.. ugh.. anyway has anyone had any luck with this? So far I have had the best luck using totem-xine plugin, but also vlc. Mplayer didn't seem to work too well.

[lbyrd33]

Ive been able to play the archived games, and I noticed that they play that intro thing for like 30 or so minutes. Unlike using windows, I have never been able to fastforward to a different part of any media in my web browser using linux.

[olinbg]

Ive been able to play the archived games, and I noticed that they play that intro thing for like 30 or so minutes. Unlike using windows, I have never been able to fastforward to a different part of any media in my web browser using linux.
This seems like a problem that could be fixed. Anyone have any more insight into why you can't skip around in streaming media on linux vs. windows?

[gregalynch]

I have the exact same problem with the site. Go cubs.

[gregalynch]

Nope, because my DSL isn't quite fast enough. However, I do listen to MLB audio. I needed to install mplayer and flash in order to be able to listen to it.

Prufrock, what plugin are you using to listen to gameday audio? I just signed up yesterday and I can't get it to play (I'm currently using the mplayer plugin for firefox)?

Also, great screenname. 'I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each, but I do not think they will sing for me.'

[synonymous]

I have had good success using 'MediaPlayerConnectivity' as an add-on along with VLC. VLC will allow you to seek through archived streams. I posted my method on google last night. Firefox crashes at times while navigating and selecting media however.

Watching Cubs/Mets right now, this kiks ***, now I'm totally unproductive.