For mlb gameday audio (I dont pay for the video) the mplayer plugin for microb works great for me. I also can watch the videos on the brewers front page, after the cpu is done with the java script that slows down all mlb sites.
It took me a couple of weeks to get it to actually work, but i finally turned off the default plugin and turned on all of mplayer's components and it worked. The stream kills the battery though.
But thanks for directing me to the mplayerplug-in. Got that up and going, got into red pile mode (with some searching on the forum), everything hunky dory.
But, man, even at 400k, there's no action. I guess the N800 just doesn't have enough decent juice for streaming video
This is really disappointing (more disappointing than the Mariners blowing it last night *again*). I guess I can listen since the audio is great.
Poor N800 - the things I ask from it are not what it was designed for, apparently.
Sorry I couldn't be more help. My guess is that the issue for the video is the codec. I have yet to see wmv run well on my tablet, even when running from the memory card.
If you're looking to watch the flash based box score app, you should check out espn's. I can't get mlb's version to run on the tablet (it tells me express installs are not supported, don't know what that means and haven't really investigated) but espn's works, and kept up decently with the game for the one game I used it. It kills the battery even worse than streaming audio, so I gave up trying it and just use the auto-refresh mobile page.
I actually use mlbviewer to watch MLB tv in Linux. There's a thread were you can post to the creators: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ml#post3159277
Basically you need Python and one python library. It's not going to be an easy click and go type of deal (the app is actually command line). But it's simple and works. There's also another page about it here: http://www.eds.org/~straycat/mlblinux.php Hope that helps you out.
>>I guess the N800 just doesn't have enough decent juice for streaming video<<
I bookmarked dozens of live mms feeds on the default media player--tv streams (including cnn), sports, mtv, movies, etc. Most of them are smooth (not mlb though) and very enjoyable.
I actually use mlbviewer to watch MLB tv in Linux. ...
I've downloaded it and I know I need some kinda python compiler maybe sorta kinda (see earlier in the thread).
I just sort of gave up. I'm afraid if I start asking questions on those sites you mentioned that people will start asking me Linux questions for background info and I just (obviously) don't know what I'm talking about when it comes to anything Linuxian
The fact that the Mariners pitching pen sux only has a little to do with this
>>I guess the N800 just doesn't have enough decent juice for streaming video<<
I bookmarked dozens of live mms feeds on the default media player--tv streams (including cnn), sports, mtv, movies, etc. Most of them are smooth (not mlb though) and very enjoyable.
Oh yes, yes, yes. I'm watching CNN using it right now A great idea.
Betty, if you're still looking for mlbviewer, I've now made a port (due to a change in mlb's media serving killing the audio that I had working). I haven't tested the video, but if you're willing to give it a shot you can check it out in this thread.
A great idea.