MLB Radio On Your S60v3 - Kinda
Reader Andrew has figured out a way to listen to MLB.com radio on your S60v3 handset. Be warned, it’s not a simple arrangement, but if you really need your baseball fix, this is it folks:
You can follow the thread here on HowardForums.com, but I’ve copied the instructions below, for your convenience. Thank for figuring it out, Andrew. I would imagine this might work for any .wma stream, though I’ve not tried it yet myself. Any developers reading this, we need a better solution, got any ideas?
You Will Need:
VLC Media Player
Media Player Connectivity (Firefox Plugin)
ORB
OPTIONAL: VNC on your Phone/Computer
Ok here goes:
Step 1:
Setup Media Player Connectivity (On machines that have access to MLB.COM) to Capture the Audio Stream: When configuring it set it up to capture Windows Media Streams. Then go to Page 2 of the Configuration Screen and select: SHOW A DIRECT URL LINK ICON
Step 2:
Go to MLB.COM and select your Audio stream. When it pops up as capture by MPC right click on the META icon in the bottom left and click “Copy Link Location”
Step 3:
Open up VLC and Choose: File: Wizard: Transcode Save to File (NEXT): Paste in your copied stream in the box (NEXT): Chose Transcode Audio Box ONLY and set it to mp3 16 bit (NEXT): Choose RAW (NEXT): Save the file as FILENAME.Mp3 in a folder that ORB searches audio for.
VLC Will now open and save that stream in the Orb Folder. You won’t hear any audio don’t worry.
Step 4: This is cool. Go to ORB and find the file that you saved. ORB will allow you to open it even though it is in the process of being saved. You will of course be a few seconds/minutes behind the feed but its better then nothing.
NOTE: I’ve only tried this with streams from yesterdays games as there are no games on today yet. However, I can’t see why it wouldn’t work exactly the same.
Now there are a few catches:
You kinda need to be able to get to a computer and setup the stream. Whether you do this from VNC or your work or home computer doesn’t matter.
What does matter is speed. These links tend to expire very quickly so you need to jump on it fast and get it setup. It may not be possible to do it via VNC with the N95 for example unless you are really fast on the keypad.
Really the good thing about this is that you can leave the house and the stream will keep recording on your home machine. So 2 hours later you can listen to the game from the start if you like or Fast Forward to real time (I assume you can do this with RealPlayer on N95)
I’m hoping someone can write a script where all you have to do is copy the location into a VB box and it auto records or something.
Anyways. Hopefully this helps some MLB or NHL or whatever fans out.
Oh Yea one side note:
KEEP VLC OPEN
Closing it will kill the encoding process and your stream will obviously be cut off early.
This should work with any streaming media that VLC can open and re-encode.
I’m thinking an app would need to be quick and tiny enough to work through VNC.
Maybe have it pop up and ask for your stream. Then back end the VLC process to your required settings.
Therefore you could VNC in copy and paste and then you are done.
Oh yea. And watch your harddisk space! I assume 4 hours of mp3 encoding could be 200 or so megs
So here’s my question……I got this to work with a couple of sites that actually use WMP, but MLB Gameday Audio seems to use flash which I can’t get to work with VLC….any suggestions?