Cygwin

Running mlbviewer on Windows is possible thanks to the incredible Cygwin application.

First, download the Cygwin application here: https://www.cygwin.com/

When installing Cygwin, make sure to install the following software packages from their respective categories:

Category	Software Package
Devel	gcc-core
Devel	gcc-g++
Devel	make
Devel	subversion
Libs	libcurl-devel
Libs	libcurl4
Net	openssl-devel
Web	wget
Editors	your favorite (vim, emacs, nano, nedit, etc. Pick one you're comfortable with or use your favorite Windows editor)

Once you have made these selections, click Next and accept any additional package selections Cygwin suggests to meet the prerequisites of the ones you have selected.

After cygwin installation has completed, start a Cygwin Terminal from Start Menu.

You will need more packages that were not available in the Cygwin installation.

libconfig

Required for mlbhls (HD streamer used by mlbviewer).
Get the source here: http://www.hyperrealm.com/libconfig/libconfig-1.4.9.tar.gz

$ wget http://www.hyperrealm.com/libconfig/libconfig-1.4.9.tar.gz
$ tar xvzf libconfig-1.4.9.tar.gz
$ cd libconfig-1.4.9
$ sh configure --prefix=/usr
$ make
$ make install

It is very important to include the "--prefix=/usr" in the configure statement. Otherwise, mlbhls may not find the newly installed libconfig in /usr/local.

mlbhls

This is the HD streamer and may eventually become the default streamer as MLB.TV no longer officially supports the RTMP (SD) streamer for video. Rtmpdump is still required for audio streaming.

Get the source for mlbhls, build, and install it as follows:

$ cd
$ git clone https://github.com/thegryghost/mlbtv-hls-nexdef.git
$ cd mlbtv-hls-nexdef.git
$ make
$ cp mlbhls /usr/bin

rtmpdump

Get the source here: http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/download/rtmpdump-2.3.tgz

Build and install as follows:

$ cd
$ wget http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/download/rtmpdump-2.3.tgz
$ tar xvzf rtmpdump-2.3.tgz
$ cd rtmpdump-2.3
$ make
$ make install

mpv

Mpv is a fork of mplayer2 and is the recommended player for mlbviewer.

Get a recent Windows release here: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/releases

Extract the entire Windows release to your cygwin /usr/share location. If you installed cygwin in C:\cygwin, then extract the file to c:\cygwin\usr\share\mpv. You will need to instruct your favorite archive extractor application to create the mpv directory. Otherwise, it will extract all the files directly to /usr/share making a mess of /usr/share.

Finally, link the mpv.exe to /usr/bin:

$ ln -s /usr/share/mpv/mpv.exe /usr/bin/mpv.exe

(Optional)
You can instead make the link as mplayer which will save you the trouble of changing the video_player= and audio_player= settings in the mlbviewer config file.

mlbviewer

Finally ready for mlbviewer.

$ cd
$ svn co https://svn.code.sf.net/p/mlbviewer/code/trunk mlbviewer-svn
$ cd mlbviewer-svn
$ ./mlbviewer.py

Edit the config file and add in your MLB.TV or MLB.com username and password in the user= and pass=.

Change the video and audio player lines to mpv instead of mplayer. The rest of the lines can remain the same. If you created the link from /usr/share/mpv/mpv.exe to /usr/bin/mplayer.exe, you do not need to change the video_player and audio_player lines.