This is Ot because it deals with Orca access and I did post it to the orca list but I thought it might be helpful either to people on this list not subscribbed to the orca list but using orca or to people experimenting with command line usage for sports or for other audio that doesn't seem to be working with mplayer. >From chomiak at charter.net Thu Jan 22 12:28:27 2009 Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:28:22 -0600 (CST) From: Cheryl Homiak <chomiak@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: orca-list at gnome.org Subject: Exciting news about mlb and nfl and related access Last year I couldn't access mlb games with iceweasel or firefox and for nfl gootball I could access windows media links but not not realplayer links; this was a real pain for the first several weeks of the season as by some glitch only realplayer links were working for home teams. I solved the mlb problem last year by using a program called mlbviewer on the command line; this works great!!! In fact, I even tried it today and was able to arrow back to the Word Series games for last year or, better yet, use the j key to enter a date. However, today I saw a post on the debian-powerpc list about somebody tryinjg to access realplayer content. The primary answer given, for debian users, was to instal mplayer, mplayer-mozilla (which I didn't know existed) and then run a script /usr/share/mplayer/scripts/binary_codecs.sh install I added mplayer-mozilla and ran the script, which basically appears to add the ssentials codecs package which can also be downloaded from the mplayer website. Then I tried the realplayer links at nfl and they worked; i'm remembered on this computer and don't have to enter my login information so I can't tell you whether or not this will work if you aren't automatically logged in. Then, although mlb doesn't use realplayer links any longer, I thought that maybe the addition of the mplayer-mozilla package and/or more codecs might allow me to use the mlb website directly. Rather than going to www.mlb.com, which is more complicated as far as accessing the audio feeds, I used http://mlb.com/mlb/homepage/narrowband.jsp chose the multimedia link and went down to the games for the day, which of course are still the archives of the last World Series game from last year--but you could also open the calendar for other dates from last year. I hit enter on one of the archived links for the audio since i just have the gameday audio pass, and I was presented with the login page. After entering my login information, much to my delight, I was taken to the game feed and it loaded and played. Of course there are no guarantees with mlg; mlb always seems to throw some kind of problematic change into their website each year, and they seem to wait to do it until you've payed for the season and spring training is over. However, at least at this point, it works with orca as described above. I thought I should share this information because I thought it might be helpful to those having problem either with these specific issues or with other sites whose audio content doesn't seem to work. Hth. -- Cheryl "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
