mlb premium not working on boxee

[boxee_mlb]

Hello

I've got MLB premium TV - just trying to watch an archived game on boxee - it says it's playing (time at the bottom) etc, but no video and no sound. Just a grey screen.

I can watch the same game in safari on the MLB TV site with no problems. I'm irritated! I only got boxee to watch MLB, can anyone help?

Thanks!

[boxee_mlb]

forgot to add, latest version, have a wallet at mlb. archive is not working on boxee on either iMac or Apple TV, but fine off Safari.

[Sidgriffey]

I am having the same problem. Anyone have a solution out there to this one?

[boxee_mlb]

this just in from MLB support - maybe Boxee is actually going to be OK after all??

Archives from last season are currently unavailable on Boxee, I apologize for the inconvenience. Archives of games from this season will be available.

[flatlandy]

For those of you who have used MLB.TV on boxee, what can you say of the quality?

I am trying to decide whether to get a mac mini/boxee set up with MLB.TV, or just to get the local MLB Extra Innings package.

Any help will be appreciated!

[devilishduck]

I too cannot watch any MLB games on Boxee. I've attempted to watch on my AppleTV and Macbook Pro and get the same result as everyone else: The initial MLB logos with "Powered by Flash" followed by the grey MLB screen.

[boxee_mlb]

Games will be available on Boxee in April.

That's the message I just got from MLB in their support section. Suppose I'll have to take it at face value for now!

[aosterloh]

I just got Apple TV with Boxee (via ATVFlash) . Even with premium account I cannot watch any game. I get some yellow loading dot animation, then a grey screen, then nothing ...

Any ideas ?

[jdeslip]

Throwing in a "me too" here. I can get past the screen showing the two team logos, but then get stuck on the grey MLB screen forever when trying to watch any of the Spring training games...

[convergent]

For those of you who have used MLB.TV on boxee, what can you say of the quality?

I am trying to decide whether to get a mac mini/boxee set up with MLB.TV, or just to get the local MLB Extra Innings package.

Any help will be appreciated!

First off... for everyone saying "me too", there is a message that comes up on the screen when you start MLB.TV in Boxee that says that they are NOT going to show pre-season games via Boxee. So its fair to say that 100% of Boxee viewers will be a "me too". You can watch the games fine via a browser, which is what I've been doing.

Back to this question. I had MLB Extra Innings with Time Warner last year and it wasn't bad, but they copy protected every game so that I couldn't use my Tivo HD to even record them for later playback on the same Tivo... and we almost never watch them live.... usually start an hour after the game starts. So that was one of many reasons I'm here now... building a system to allow me to cut TWC entirely.

I first tried an Acer Revo and it worked OK for most things, but MLB.TV was horrible on it... using a browser since Boxee isn't working yet. After a week of fiddling and tuning, and comparing with my Macbook Pro, I decided to buy a Mac Mini and try that. I've watched a few archived games for testing from 2009 and they are beautiful no the Mac Mini. You have to follow their instructions to load their plug-in and all, or you don't get that quality. So if Boxee stinks then we'll just watch them via the browser. I think that you'll give up a lot of the features of MLB.TV by using Boxee anyways. But it would be convenient for my wife since she hates computers. I have not had the best quality playback via Boxee when compared to other alternatives, so I am anxious to see how it does. But as for the service, it looks great on a Mac Mini in a browser.

[stevenghill]

mlb app still not working and i have the latest update

[martin_petrov]

I installed Boxee for Mac last night on a Mac Mini (which I think is running 10.5?) but when I click on the MLB icon, it tells me that I need to update to the latest version?

Unless I've missed something, I am on the latest version (by virtue of downloading last night) - any bright ideas?

My version is 0.9.20.10708 (and the build date is Feb 11 2010 - does this mean it's not the latest version?) - I don't REALLY want to be installing some bleeding edge version if I can avoid it, but I was really looking forward to being able to use mlb.tv through a nice interface that I could control with a remote control....

[darcilicious]

I believe you'll need the Early Access to the next beta release:
http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=17352

[ianfrommontreal]

I too get the update boxee message. I cannot download the early realease since I am running boxee with Apple tv. Please help, I need my baseball quick !!

[darcilicious]

I too get the update boxee message. I cannot download the early realease since I am running boxee with Apple tv. Please help, I need my baseball quick !!

You'll want to keep an eye out for developments / releases in the Apple TV forum then: http://forum.boxee.tv/forumdisplay.php?f=13 and http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=9881

[ianfrommontreal]

But that doesn't help. Boxee has had all winter to fix the kinks and now that the season started, we are missing out !

It worked fine last year, why can't we just use last years version ?

[martin_petrov]

I believe you'll need the Early Access to the next beta release:
http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=17352

Marvellous.

I've upgraded to the beta and I'm logged and set my favourite teams....!

Thanks!

[ianfrommontreal]

How do I download this new release for my appletv ?

[darcilicious]

How do I download this new release for my appletv ?Please post in the Apple TV forum for ATV help:
http://forum.boxee.tv/forumdisplay.php?f=13

[stephen]

Even with the early access release it is not working for me. The error I get is "An error occurred during login". All the log says is:


16:50:01 T:2696164608 M:630964224 INFO: Application id is: mlb (python)
16:50:01 T:2696164608 M:630960128 ERROR: XBPython::evalFileInContext, queue file: /Users/stephen/Library/Application Support/BOXEE/UserData/apps/mlb/launch.py (python)
16:50:01 T:2954420224 M:630956032 INFO: XBPyPersistentThread::Process, running job (python)
16:50:01 T:2954420224 M:630956032 INFO: XBPyPersistentThread::Process, run file, path = /Users/stephen/Library/Application Support/BOXEE/UserData/apps/mlb/launch.py (python)


Any ideas?

EDIT: I actually got the app to load, deleting boxee and reinstalling fixed it. Now I can't seem to load any streams. The log says:


ERROR: CDVDPlayer::OpenInputStream - error opening>>> [playlist://...