OK. So googling 'linux mlb.com' brought me to mlbviewer.

But. Um. I'm stuck at this point. I downloaded it and:

1. I'm not even sure if it can run on the N800 with OS2008,

2. the download opens up xarchiver and I'm not sure what to do at this point.

I've unzipped the files into a dedicated folder but I can't figure out which file (if any) actually does whatever the application's suppose to do in order to watch my paid live video feed subscription of baseball games.

The mlb.com site is awful on a Mac in a variety of browsers so you can imagine how crappy the site is for linux users

In any case, if I could figure this out, that would be grand. Sometimes I just don't want to watch the game in front of my desktop computer screen, damned it, and the onscreen window is just about the size of the N800 (in height, at least).

Help?

You'd need to compile the software for the N800.

I can't even get the audio to work. I haven't bothered with mlb-tv, but I do subscribe to the game-day audio, and it won't play on my N800 or my Eee PC. It seems to require Micro$oft silverblight, and that's Windows only AFAIK.

silverlight will be comming to Internet tablets...soon..normaly

Oh, dear God.

I have no idea what that means.

OK. I'm assuming I'm going to need some application that I probably don't already have. Suggestion for which one? And a decent tutorial page somewhere?

It'd be grand to watch the game away from the desktop.

For some reason, my mind has decided that playing my video stream is going to be a litmus test for my next purchase, the EEE PC 900. If I can't get the Linux version to play my video feed, the desire for a new toy goes down quite a bit, I admit. I am *not* using any Windows OS EEE PC.

That whole operating miserably failed my litmus test years ago

Ok. I looked into it further, mlbviewer is at least partially written in the Python programming language, which doesn't need to be compiled. Python is an interpreted language, and there's a Python interpreter for the N800.

However, I don't know if all the Python libraries that mlbviewer requires are available for the N800. Audio and video decoding libraries would NOT be written in Python, they'd be written in higher performance programming language, like C. And C needs to be compiled (translated from "English" to machine instructions) specifically for the OS and hardware the software will run on.

Compiling software for a different OS and hardware can be difficult or easy, depending on the software. For example, onscreen buttons would typically be created by a OS specific routine. It'd be different between Mac, Windows, etc.

However, you could also create onscreen buttons through a cross-platform toolkit, which would handle the variations automatically. Such software could easily be compiled for any OS supported by the toolkit.

That response was informative (if not a bit depressing since I was hoping a two-click solution was going to be offered .

I'm watching the Mariners play the White Sox right now. The Sox are up 6 to 0... in the bottom of the freakin' 2nd inning

If the Mariners don't find their asses soon, this whole thread may be moot

Why is an external viewer needed? Just copy the following to the address box and go. Although not perfectly smooth, the built-in media player does a decent job. You can even bookmark the mms stream afterwards.

mms://a1503.l1086932070.c10869.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/1503/10869/v0001/reflector:32070?ct2=9802512181156463434671&ct3=-1&ct4=-1&media_type=wms&av_type=video&event_pk=

Try this please, http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ad.php?t=19044, and go to the Major League Baseball channel.

bun

Thing is, I'm paying for live (and archived) video feeds that require a subscription, a sign-in and a password so I guess L'd have to get past those on the N800's browser and then somehow snag the url?

Thanks for reminder re: the TV thread.It's great ttosee the OP has been updating his starter post.