Re: [ANNOUNCE] mlbviewer_gui for maemo (Beta)
 

Ahah! :p No not yet, but I will try it out and let you know tomorrow.:)

Re: [ANNOUNCE] mlbviewer_gui for maemo (Beta)
 

I get the URL fetching error. I have a gameday audio subscription.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] mlbviewer_gui for maemo (Beta)
 

Can you post the log from /home/usr/MyDocs/mlboutputlog.txt and have you looked for the /usr/lib/.mlb/config file to verify your settings are being saved?

From what I can tell from the original backend, the URL error is often a login failure.

Betty:
Yeah, don't bother, that post is for an older version of mplayer, and it hasn't been ported to .27 yet. At first glance, there is atleast one library file not found, and I don't know where to begin and figure out how to patch mplayer. Guess we'll have to either wait, or you'll have to pray that I magically learn how c++ for Maemo...

Re: [ANNOUNCE] mlbviewer_gui for maemo (Beta)
 

Just to throw in my 2 cents, I have the audio only subscription and was using version 0.0.3-2 without any problems on audio and was able to watch the video highlights. I will download the latest version soon. Again, thanks big time for creating this app!

Re: [ANNOUNCE] mlbviewer_gui for maemo (Beta)
 

I guess I do have a request. Can you make the "Game Viewer" dialog box application modal instead of system modal, or make it a minimizable window instead of a dialog box? It would be nice to be able to bring up the browser or some other app while listening to a game. Currently, the Game Viewer dialog box stays up front.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] mlbviewer_gui for maemo (Beta)
 

The reason you can't see it in emelfm is because any folder with a . in front of it is hidden. Tap on the H in the top left to view hidden files. (See here for more emelfm info: http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ghlight=emelfm )

As for the issues I'm having. Now, the replay games are at least playing, so that helps.

Here's what the videos look like when they play: Its recorded with my camera phone, so that doesn't help, but most of the blockiness in the video is exactly how it looks when I play it.

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=e3HcOkvLFSA

Re: [ANNOUNCE] mlbviewer_gui for maemo (Beta)
 

Thats actually very helpful to me. It definatly looks like the video decode is being scrambled, probably a lot of droped frames.

Can you go either post your log here (atach or copy and paste, doesn't make much difference to me) or scan through it yourself. At the top of the file should be the console output from mplayer (only standard output, I forgot to make it log standard error as well). A few lines after the "Playing mms://..." mplayer will report some of the stream data. Could you just post for me the contents of the line begining with "VIDEO:" That should help figure out some of the difference between the two streams.

I did that for a little bit before I released the version that fixed the mplayer window issues (simply hide the game viewer when any stream is launched) but I ran into a snag closing mplayer when mlbviewer closed all together. ...Mid reply ADHD moment... after writing about how I was confused that I couldn't close mplayer on exit, I went and looked at the code to check on an error print that I did. To my amazement, I constructed the string for the command... and then just left it. Never sent it to the mplayer process... that's what I get for coding at 1AM. I will try it out this evening and assuming it works, I will indeed allow hiding the game viewer.

I wanted to make an update this evening anyways because I've updated the configuration dialog, including audio follow and player commands.

I better get back to my real work...

Re: [ANNOUNCE] mlbviewer_gui for maemo (Beta)
 

Oh man, this is real work! The other stuff just pays the bills! :p

Re: [ANNOUNCE] mlbviewer_gui for maemo (Beta)
 

So I seem to be getting a ton of "bits_overconsumption" messages in xterm when I open it from there and attempt to play video. Also, I just reflashed my tablet and used the newest version of this, and the Gameday audio is louder.


Edit: Also, here's from the log for a game tonight, though it happens on all pages
and don't blame Diablo because I was on
Chinook until a few hours ago.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] mlbviewer_gui for maemo (Beta)
 

Thanks for posting the log, I'll have to go through it and see if any of it helps. I have found a command to tell mplayer to increase the volume, but havent decided how to add it to the interface. So if you have it working, I'll leave it as is for now.

I'm posting another updated version. The major difference is in the config dialog, which now has 3 tabs so that you can change the normal system settings, the audio follow (with toggle buttons for each team, not alphabetical because the "for" command doesn't seem to read in the order I added the entries), and direct editing of the mplayer commands. I've also included a cancel button, a defaults button, and the username and password are filled in from the current config (and use password chars).

The audio stream will now still play when you close the game viewer, and still ends when you exit mlbviewer.

So, the default mplayer command is now going to include the -quiet tag, which will reduce Mplayer's output to the log. Which reminds me, both standard ouput and standard error are now going to be in the log file.

Greyhost:
I'd agree... if it wasn't a family business that I hope to have support me for atleast 40 more years...

EDIT:
The audio and video buttons are now disabled if you don't save an email address in the config (technically it just looks for an "@" in the user string)

Re: [ANNOUNCE] mlbviewer_gui for maemo (Beta)
 

Based on the following link, it definitely looks like the scrambled picture when watching the game streams is due to the codec...

http://www.eds.org/~straycat/mlblinux.php

Now if we can somehow find compile the recommended codec for the tablets, this has the potential to be really cool!!!!

Re: [ANNOUNCE] mlbviewer_gui for maemo (Beta)
 

[QUOTE=hvacengi;189895]So here is what should happen:
On the first boot ever (uninstall the program and run "rm -a /home/user/.mlb" to rmove all traces) the config window should pop up shortly after the message "loading mlbviewer"

I kinda figured this one was not going to be any easy install for a newbie ;)

First problem was getting python2.5 installed.:o:o After hours of searching on how to install python2.5, someone suggested here to try and install mediabox/canola 2. Did that and finally i could install the python-simplejson deb. First hurdle. Got the mlbviewer_gui-0.05.1 to install also without any problems :rolleyes:
But now when i launch the programm from the extras menu all i get is "Launching mlbviewer". Nothing happens after that :confused:

Am i missing an important step ?

Any and all help would be highly appreciated.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] mlbviewer_gui for maemo (Beta)
 

Well, then I have a have good news for you, and bad for me. I managed to screw up my OS this morning, so I'm going through the process of reflashing (and cloning to internal card while I'm at it) and then I'll get to install from scratch as well shortly.

What you can do to help me out in figuring out what is wrong in your version is look for the log file that mlbviewer outputs by default. It's path is /home/user/MyDocs/mlboutputlog.txt (if you open the default file manager, it should be in the first folder that opens by default).

Re: [ANNOUNCE] mlbviewer_gui for maemo (Beta)
 

OK,
Sounds like you need a few hours to get everything back up and running. When you have some time here is the log file.

2008-06-11 01:35:44.300598
run
load_ui
load_conf
defaults made
{'show_player_command': 0, 'audio_player': 'mplayer -cache 64 -quiet -playlist', 'top_plays_player': 'mplayer -cache 2048 -quiet', 'time_offset': '0', 'audio_follow': [], 'video_player': 'mplayer -cache 2048 -quiet', 'user': '', 'pass': '', 'debug': 0, 'speed': '400', 'x_display': '', 'blackout': []}
doinstall
setup_cfg
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/mlbviewer_gui/mlbviewer_gui.py", line 528, in <module>
app.run()
File "/usr/lib/mlbviewer_gui/mlbviewer_gui.py", line 486, in run
self.load_conf()
File "/usr/lib/mlbviewer_gui/mlbviewer_gui.py", line 374, in load_conf
self.doinstall(self.myconf,self.mydefaults,dir)
File "/usr/lib/mlbviewer_gui/mlbviewer_gui.py", line 411, in doinstall
self.setup_cfg(dct)
File "/usr/lib/mlbviewer_gui/mlbviewer_gui.py", line 389, in setup_cfg
if team in self.mycfg.data['audio_follow']:
AttributeError: 'mlbv_gui' object has no attribute 'mycfg'

Re: [ANNOUNCE] mlbviewer_gui for maemo (Beta)
 

Ok hvacengi, it sounds like you have fallen on your sword for us, thanks. Good luck with the reflash/build.

In the meantime, I've done my bit.

I made use of my credit card to subscribe for the mlb.com tv premium service (I will use it for the five days, for sure, and if this works, well, who knows?) :eek:

The first thing I check was the viewer on my pc. Works fine. The 400k is in 4:3 and looks good. Crisp but small. No ability to resize of go fullscreen. The 800k is in 16:9 and also looks good but small w/no resize options. The 1.2m is in 16:9 but seems smaller and can't be resized in the viewer either. I may have missed something but it doesn't seem worth 15+ bucks a month to get the tiny screen. Then, I went to see the Astros, my team. Blackout. Now it really doesn't seem worth it, even for the audio, as I can get those games off the air for free, just not on my N810.

Ok, it's still a free trial, right? I updated mlb viewer to the latest (5) and that worked fine. The mlb tv link now works! It launches mplayer and even though the audio is fine, the video is still garbled. It seems better, and there are even moments of clarity, but alas, on the whole it is still not working correctly.

A previous poster made note of the similarity of the scramble to a codec problem...sounds good to me. Any ideas, coders? Clearly, I am not able to make a fix, but I'll be a willing beta tester. Thanks blade2002 for posting the log file, as that is something I haven't done:rolleyes: I'll even provide a log file if that'll help:)

Can't say it enough. This sort of app is what drives the process. Keep up the good work. I'll write a note for your parents!:p

Re: [ANNOUNCE] mlbviewer_gui for maemo (Beta)
 

OK. I have a new problem.

I upgraded to 0.0.5. But the app. sort of got stuck. So I went to home/user/.mlb/ and deleted the config file (since that had caused problems before).

And tried to relaunch the app figuring it'll automatically recreate a configuration file when the app. opens and I add my signin info.

Except the app now wouldn't even open :::headslap:::.

So, I uninstalled through the Application Manager and reinstalled 0.0.5. Still no configuration or cookie file.

So I unstalled it again, rebooted, installed the previous 0.0.4.3 (?) version and *that* hasn't been able to open up, either.

After every uninstallation, I used emelFM2 to look for any remainder files (even from the mlboutlog.tx in /home/user/MyDocs/).

So now I can't even launch the application (it starts and then... nothing). The home/user/MyDocs/mlboutputlog.txt is:

2008-06-10 19:38:40.688018
run
load_ui
load_conf
doinstall
Could not write config file: /home/user/.mlb/config
Please check directory permissions.


Nuts. Wasn't there something about 'directory permissions' in an earlier version?

Ssooooooo close. I can feel it soooooo close :)

EDIT: Update

So I uninstalled again, installed 0.0.3x, that worked, submitted by login and password, updated to 0.0.5 and all was well (well... you know... except for all the snowy-ness 'n all)

Next up, get the mlboutputlog.txt (see attachment)

Oh. Looks ominous :confused:

But I know you can do something with it :D

This is sooo neat.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] mlbviewer_gui for maemo (Beta)
 

Yeah, so apparently every time you think you fix a problem, you just create more problems... thus is the story of my coding life.

OK, so when I got the config to work, I also broke the initial config (which is odd, cause I thought I tested it, apparently not). I referenced a self variable that doesn't exist until after the first config load... now thats fixed.

I just noticed that the game times aren't being displayed right, I'll have to double check the time shift generating code.

At the same time, I think that I've found an issue with the permisions that stems from a few things that have flip flopped in how the config directory and file are creater.
At this point I recomend to every one that after upgrading to 0.0.5-2 you delete (as root) the folder "/home/user/.mlb" and start out with the new configuration dialog box.
Doing so sould ensure that the folder and file are both owned by "user" instead of root. (I think this is because I use secure ftp from the ssh server, with which I have to use root as my username.)

I think this should work, it worked for me atleast, and I had the same problem as blade2002.

God only knows, I'm still trying to figure out what all I had installed on my tablet before 10AM this morning.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] mlbviewer_gui for maemo (Beta)
 

Just saw your update. Thanks for the log, definatly looks like an updated version of mplayer would work great.

Maybe I'll try to figure out what Bundyo did to get rc2 up and running...

Re: [ANNOUNCE] mlbviewer_gui for maemo (Beta)
 

Just FYI, for the last couple of updates (I can't recall the version numbers) I've simply clicked on the link to the .deb in the first post of this thread and instead of saving the file and using the app manager to open it and install it (a defensive procedure I learned from more experienced members of this forum... learned after an unexpected and semi-painful reflash) I skipped that step and simply chose "open". This resulted in the seamless updating of my previous versions. In other words, it worked as expected and even better. I am running v5 and except for the garbled video, it works great! Honestly, I really love the replays, since I can watch them late at nite in bed, and they are free!

Sorry Betty, to hear you are having such troubles but I share your pain :( and I agree...we are so close!

Ummm, that is, the rhetorical we...I do not have a mouse in my pocket, nor am I actually working on the app, merely sitting in the bleachers cheering for the likes of hvacengi!:D

Edit: I don't think I have installed 5-2 yet. It just says 5 in the app manager.

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You can't watch it in full-screen mode? When you look at the attached .jpg of the viewing screen, do you not see the viewing and volume slider (it disappears within a few seconds but you can reactive it by moving your cursor across the window)? To the right are the three sizing options for the screen *and* each of them is dragable (well... except the full screen mode, of course).

I think even the archived games can be resized. 'Course, I gave up and downloaded SilverLight for Macs so maybe you're still using WMP 11's option?

Yeah. Blackouts. I got POed 'cause the Mariners were playing the Toronto Blue Jays and they were blacked out. Um... sure the Jays are the only Canadian team but there's a good three time zones between me and Toronto... MLB seriously doesn't think a blackout should effect an *entire* country, does it?

So I called up customer support and got someone in the Phillipines who used up a lot of my long distance time and ten minutes, only to tell me it's blacked out 'cause it's on a Canadian national sports channel.

At least I got to watch the series from my bed. Where I almost cried (a lot). Man. The Mariners are a sad, saaaad bunch this year :mad: But hearing the Toronto announcers talk about the Mariners line up was a hoot. Very complimentary towards all the wrong people (well... right names, no way should be be complimented).

Re: [ANNOUNCE] mlbviewer_gui for maemo (Beta)
 

Greyhost, what OS do you use on your PC?
For Mac or PC you can download some other viewers to work better on it, if you're trial edition is premium.
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/subscriptions/download.jsp

Standard disclaimer - I don't do the video myself, so I've no idea if it will work.

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Doh! I just double-clicked and voila! Ca marche! I am an idiot or it's late...probably some of both:p

Sorry B, about them Mariners, but they can't all be as good as the l'Astros, no? On the highlight reel from the 'stros game two days ago was clip of a fly ball dropping in front of two Astros outfielders:rolleyes:

Re: [ANNOUNCE] mlbviewer_gui for maemo (Beta)
 

How 'bout this: Richie Sexson, 6'8" first baseman, gets a ball from outfield and all he has to do is throw it to the catcher to tag out a Jay. AND HE THROWS THE BALL RIGHT INTO THE GROUND ABOUT MIDWAY TO THE PLATE AND IT BOUNCES TWICE before dribbling in. I swear it took a good 30 seconds just to get to Johjima. Who looked rather disgusted by the whole thing. As well he should.

Please... don't get me started... :eek:

Re: [ANNOUNCE] mlbviewer_gui for maemo (Beta)
 

I am reluctantly (it came with the machine) using Vista. I required to use XP at work, and prefer it over Vista. I would buy a Mac if I had the money!

All in all, it's the IT am keenly interested in, so if/when the video works on my N810, I might consider keeping the subscription;) and as noted, I'll beta test with pleasure!

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Another FYI for anyone interested. I just installed v 5-2 and following hvacengi's instructions, deleted the mlb directory in home/user. Unfortunately, this meant that when I launched mlb viewer nothing happened, so I went in to the hone/user directory and created a .mlb directory, then launched mlb viewer again and voila! It prompted me for username and password and, then opened the viewer. xlnt.

I set the video bitrate to 800 but am not sure if this makes any difference. Of course, today's games are yet to be played, but going back to yesterdays games, a click on mlbtv brings up the archived full game, but the video is still garbled. However, the recap (and all the replays) work great!

All this, of course, has had no effect on the Astros, who almost managed to get swept by by the Brewers:(

Re: [ANNOUNCE] mlbviewer_gui for maemo (Beta)
 

I had a similar issue. I fixed it by moving the .mlb folder from /home/home to /home/user After that it opened just fine. Now I have to wait until this afternoon to see how it works.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] mlbviewer_gui for maemo (Beta)
 

I was just looking at mlb.com and noticed that there is, in addition to the daily recap, a "condensed game" feed. Do you think it is possible to include this feed in the viewer?

This would really be nice because it's a great way to see the game and if the video works as well as the rewind, well, I'd be a happy camper!

Re: [ANNOUNCE] mlbviewer_gui for maemo (Beta)
 

YEAAAAAHHHH,
Just got my gameday audio finally working :D
I deleted the 5-1 version. Rebooted. Went to the first post and opened the 5.2 version instead of saving it to the n800. Rebooted. Checked with emelfm2 for a /home/user/.mlb directory, but was not present. So i created the .mlb directory. Started mlbviewer and everything worked like a charm. WOW.

Thanks a million hvacengi !!! Hope you got your n800 back up and running !

And thanks to all other posters for the useful information :D

GO WHITE SOX !!

Re: [ANNOUNCE] mlbviewer_gui for maemo (Beta)
 

First of all: I don't want to hear you're complaining about the Astros!!!! Berkman beat up my poor pitching staff with his 5 RBI's :p And don't get me started on Roy "I'm gonna pitch like I used to just for the brewers" Oswalt...

Anyways, on topic:
I noticed the /home/home/.mlb directory on my tablet today too, very strange. My guess is that I messed up when I reconstructed the pypackager folder tree to make 0.0.5-2, since the original was lost in the flash ( :mad: )

But it didn't prevent me from getting the program to boot. Which I think is the oddest part. If you don't even get the first config dialog, that means that it cannot create the directory "/home/user/.mlb" but if it doesn't load after that it means that it can't open the config file. So from what you're telling me, for some reason the app had permision to create .mlb for me, but it didn't for either of you....

I'll have to investigate further, I'll look at the owner of my .mlb folder and config file, check the permissions, and then I may ask that one of you use "ls" to do the same as is right now, and then after deleting .mlb again to see if it's reproduced.

Glad its working!

Oh and blade, I forgot to enable the use of the radio buttons for stream quality. You might try editing the config file up from the 400 default and see if it changes (I suspect it will actually be worse, but you never know).

Re: [ANNOUNCE] mlbviewer_gui for maemo (Beta)
 

I actually don't like the Silverlight version at all, it doesn't work well for me on my Windows PC (running Firefox, maybe thats why) so I downloaded the MLB.TV mosaic which is much better, since its a separate application.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] mlbviewer_gui for maemo (Beta)
 

LOL! :D

If I promise to get the Astro's to lose tonite's game, can you fix the video so I can see the game replay? :o

It's so close I can almost see it. I messed with the parameters that you now display in the config dialog box, but I don't know enough to know how to 'improve' it. I changed the numbers up and down with no effect:o What does the -quiet attribute do? Just curious.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] mlbviewer_gui for maemo (Beta)
 

Right. I mean, I didn't get the first config dialog, so I created the .mlb directory in home/user (as root).

Apparently. Once I created the directory, the app created the file on first run. All worked after that.

I will try this shortly...it's worth a shot. I found somewhere (was it in tinkering with Orb?) that 'lowering' the bitrate might be the solution. Again, worth an experiment.

Edit: Nope, adjusting the numbers didn't work. In fact, it didn't load unless it was set at 400...

Re: [ANNOUNCE] mlbviewer_gui for maemo (Beta)
 

As a software developer myself, I'm used to hearing "fix this bug' & "where's this feature". The lack of positive feedback can make it hard sometimes. So here's some good news. I can only watch the game recaps/highlight videos on the NIT. I can't get them to play decently on my PC. Even after they appear to be cached in the browser, they still won't play fully. This mlbviewer program is awesome! I have no problems with the audio or the highlight videos. Thanks.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] mlbviewer_gui for maemo (Beta)
 

I'm glad you're enjoying it. Really, this port could be re-ported to straight up gtk, and then work on most other OS's, if it weren't so convinent to keep the game on the tablet. But I'm not up for doing it :p

Muah ha ha ha ha ha! [Imagine that being maniacal laughter :D ]
I've been waiting for some poor sap to ask me what the parameters mean...
This link may or may not be helpful... but it will certainly give you room to play...

OK, time for another update:
After Greyhost asked about the condensed games, I did a bit of checking. It turns out that the "download" version off of source forge is from the begining of May. But the SVN (work in progress) version has had a number of upgrades, including the condensed game support. So I've updated the package with the new version of the MLBviewer backend. Unfortunatly, these condensed games seem limited to the paid video subscribers. Which means (yup, you guessed it) I haven't tested it! I got far enough to get a URL error. Looking at the page data, it looks like it could be a page asking me to log in...

So Greyhost, if you're testing that feature, I suggest going to Tuesday's game, and not today's. Maybe yesterday's, atleast there was a lot of excitement (Cooper is such a fun coach!). Atleast your team didn't walk in the winning run for the cubs by hitting Jim Edmands...

I also fixed the "/home/home/.mlb" error that was reported in the last version. I uninstalled, deleted .mlb and then reinstalled, and every thing went smoothly, so here's hoping.

I'm going to incorporate a little smarter determination of what items require authentication and which items don't in the next cycle. Mostly for the sake of the Home Run contest and the All star game, since I recall atleast one of them being a free broadcast for mlb.tv. And I definatly need to get some documentation into the gui!!!!!

Oh, and does any one know if it is possible to commit blasphemy and install an Apt repository on a windows 2k3 server?

Re: [ANNOUNCE] mlbviewer_gui for maemo (Beta)
 

hvacengi, check your PM

Re: [ANNOUNCE] mlbviewer_gui for maemo (Beta)
 

Bravo!! O I can't wait to test! Thanks very very much! I'll go install and test and report back to this thread. Thanks again, for doing this. Soon it may be time to set up one of those paypal accounts like Penguinbait or Gnuite...this is worth paying for, imho:D

UPDATE: OMFG! :eek::D This is simply awesome. It works!

Not just yesterday, but today and every game going back as far as I bothered...two weeks?

The 'Condensed Game' Feed is right there in the list with top plays and the game recap. :D

Now, even if this feature is functional only with the video subscription service, I think I may pay for a month or so and see how much I use it. I don't know how many users out there will be like me and manage afford it just for the fun of it. Nonetheless, if you can get the top plays for free, it sounds like a good deal, both for mlb, because it attracts customers who will, in the end, pay for the services, and for us.

As for the app itself, I give you very high marks, especially from a usability standpoint. :) To me, usability is of the highest importance since it defines how much we will use a particular thing, it is something that engineers and software designers miss quite often.

For example, how often have we pushed on a door that should be pulled or vice versa, then blamed ourselves for being stupid? Yet, if the designer of a door cannot make it so that we, the users can always tell whether or not we are expected to push or pull that door, then it is the designer that is stupid, or, to be fair, shortsighted. In the case of your little app, modest though you are, it is what you haven't done that makes this so neat as much as what you have done, if that makes any sense...:rolleyes:

Speaking of sense, I must also commend you on your interest in feedback and your willingness to work to improve the app. Your responses the rapid-fire feature requests that I peppered you with were not only prompt and polite, but gracious and patient with someone who is not actually paying (yet) for your time or efforts.;)

As to that, may I suggest that you consider adding this to the Maemo Extras Repo? I have no idea how, exactly, this is done, but I've seen threads and posts by those I respect that seem to think this is the place for neat little apps like this.

Other, more experienced members of the forum can likely guide you here if you are so inclined. I'll suggest some if you like, or even start a post and take the flames! I suggest it because I think i's a way of preserving your work if, heaven forbid, you should decide to work on other, perhaps more important things!

So, again, hvancengi, my thanks. and keep up the good work. Now, other than the same-day video feed (still garbled; but I'll continue to tinker with mplayer 'cause I like to, there's nothing I would add immediately to improve this wonderful app!:D:D:D

Re: [ANNOUNCE] mlbviewer_gui for maemo (Beta)
 

I am happy to report that the condensed games work perfectly through the 2nd inning of Mil vs. Hou :D
Sorry Greyghost...

Re: [ANNOUNCE] mlbviewer_gui for maemo (Beta)
 

It's ok...the season is long. I shall be watching!:D

Re: [ANNOUNCE] mlbviewer_gui for maemo (Beta)
 

OK. I'm a bit confused through the thread.

1. do people get playback without the fuzziness? Which features (live? highlights? condensed games?)

2. for people with the less-fussiness issues, what version of MPlayer are you running? From reading another thread, the newest version doesn't seem to render DIVX as well as an earlier version so obviously there can be some major issues version to version. I'm wondering if another, earlier, version of MPlayer may be a better option.

3. Is there another media player better suited to mlbviewer than MPlayer?

4. How dated is MPlayer, anyway? From the maemo.garage page updates, there doesn't seem that much change, aside from being ported to OS 2008, since early 2007.

5. How can the casual user of an N8xx device figure out how well would a video transfer rate over wireless actually be? Is it low enough (on average) to *always* bea problem or should should the 400 level choice of mlbviewer be well within the range of wireless devices (which brings us right back to MPlayer being a problem).

6. The VLC media player? How could/would this fit into this area?

Re: [ANNOUNCE] mlbviewer_gui for maemo (Beta)
 

Betty, I think you're spying on my browser history, I was looking into most of that before I went to dinner...

1) I know of no one reporting the live video working. Both the highlights and the condensed games work great for me, and from what I've seen it looks like the highlights are at least working for others as well.

2) An earlier version of mplayer actuall may work better (after a fashion). Bunyo ported mplayer rc2 to the .26 version of mplayer. rc2 is suposed to be much better on wmv9 (which the video streams use). It doesn't work with the current .27 though, and I can't install the older version, dependencies are missing.

3)as far as I'm aware, mplayer is pretty much the best video player available for any OS it runs on. It runs with low overhead, and plays a large number of formats. It is originally designed for desktop linux and the x86 chip architecture, so much optimization had/has to be done to have it run well on the tablet with its ARM architecture.

4)The current version of mplayer is from april I believe, so not that old, but not that new. From comments I've read, they are waiting for rc3 to do the next major jump in porting from the desktop.

5)Video transfer rates should be no problem. I've see file transfer's at 1.2Mbps, and the highlights and condensed games both stream at 400kbps without much issue.

6)VLC isn't very optimized for ARM either. From what I've read, it is just a straight cross compile, so while I haven't had the chance to try it, I wouldn't expect it to play wmv well. wmv is one of the less supported codecs on linux since it is closed and MS.