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hvacengi I never told you I am from nicaragua and my internet conection is 768 it can be the problem because today I flayed to Miami ,the fist I did was to launch mlbviewer and Eureka! it worked,audio is fine. the live strean is like everybody said choppy.
thank a lot for all

Has anyone been able to watch a live game successfully?

That was actually going to be one of my next questions, if we had been able to confirm that mplayer was launching. I'm glad you figured out what the problem is, but it is too bad that it won't be very easy to fix. Are you able to connect on your regular PC on that internet connection?

As far as I am aware, no. The live video consumes all of the cpu, and still wants more. I did run the video stream with the video decoding disabled and had no cpu issue. I did not try using the option of -vo null to simply disable video output, that might be a good way to confirm that the video's extra copy protection is messing us up.

I have also confirmed (by way of an IP web cam at my office) that mplayer is very capable of streaming 512kbps when using the mpeg4 codec, so it shouldn't be a bandwidth issue.


On a seperate note, I was thinking of adding an option in the config to setup the color code used for the game times, so that you could create your own map that would make sense to you (instead of just my crazy brain). Do you think that would be a good addition?

I love colors and choices.

On the Live Video: I did install VLC; similar live video results. The video freezes, the audio continues to run OK. The audio output is much LOUDER with VLC.

VLC tends to lock up mlbviewer, It grays out condensed games, and doesn't show the top plays.

Is there a way to configure mplayer to use less CPU?

I tried to figure that out about a month ago. One thing I tried was lowering the scale, so that it only tried to display 1/2 the resolution, but the image just became corrupted in a different way (kind of photo negative static). I tried a number of other options, but I invite you to take a look at mplayer's options here and see if you have any more luck. I did briefly revert to mplayer0.26 and then add the rc2 patch. It improved video play back, but not enough to matter.

It was no longer garbled, but instead incredibly laggy. Messing with frame drop settings seemed to help, but not enough.

The player command shouldn't affect which buttons are enabled or not, only the game status (for a finished game it is either 'F' or 'CG', the latter of which includes a condensed game). You said the video freezes, does that mean that it shows the game's image and isn't a block of random color squares?

[QUOTE=hvacengi;. You said the video freezes, does that mean that it shows the game's image and isn't a block of random color squares?[/QUOTE]

Correct; You see a brief stream, then it freezes a single "clear" (ungarbled) image, while continuing to stream very clear audio.

You can also have "Full screen" or a smaller scale.

Could you post the command string you used, I'm a bit more familiar with vlc form my PC and I can see if there is a way to speed up the process.

Looking over the mplayer options, I noticed "−hardframedrop". I didn't notice it before, so maybe you could try that and see if it helps. I suspect it won't without being rc2, but it's worth a shot (I do think the latest version of mplayer rc1 does better than when we started this whole ordeal).

I didn't use the command line; in the mlbviewer options I changed video to: vlc
That's it.
I tried playing with the options in vlc, but I couldn't get the video to stream.

No Luck with "-hardframedrop".

Yes I can connet to mlbtv with my ,amd window pc, I got only the 400 connection , I watch The Phillies all the season without problem, I installed siverlight and is working well.