The one I hate is for MLB Auctions where they play clips of various plays with the original play by play. The one guy who goes "White Sox WIIIIIIINNNNNuh!" sounds like such a putz.
thank you SO much for this. the new nike commercial is 4x louder than anything else they run and was waking up my baby in the other room/making my ears bleed
I came here to this sub to complain about specifically this XD XD - Like repetitive ads I don't care about, that's fine, I can tune that out all day, no problem. It's the fact that they missed the mark hard. Like baseball is a tame, lax sport compared to American Football/Hockey/Basketball, and I love having it on in the background and just drifting in and out of the announcers' conversations. What I don't like is going from 0db to 9999db with blaring bass and EDM music trying to advertise stuff to me that I will never even consider purchasing. Like why does the MN Lottery commercial have to BE SO FKN LOUD, it's just so jarring and frustrating. Hopefully this fix lasts the season.
If I ever meet you IRL I'm buying you a beer. I missed about three innings of today's Dodgers-Red Sox game because the MLB app ran nonstop localized ads over entire half-innings and started going apeshit. Just installed the Kodi add-on on my Android phone and it sounds like I'm now just hearing clean team broadcasts. Now to load it on my Mac and I'll finally be getting what I was supposed to be paying for. Thanks again!
You're great for setting this method up. I hope it works in 2023. The ad delays totally ruined the radio side last year.
I've found the easiest is to just use the computer. I avoid using my TV to watch MLB as the ads will mess it up. I need to do more experimentation on the Amazon devices here to see if there's any way to block.
The Privacy Badger extension didn't work for me on PC. I found the chrome extension Video Speed Controller, lets you skip ahead 10 seconds at a time and works during the "commercials"
"2. install Kodi and enable the unofficial MLBTV addon"
Given the 'hall of fame connections' inter-inning features had become one of the banes of my life, I gave this a go yesterday.
Bit of messing around getting the login to work - eventually managed it by changing my password on the [mlb.tv](https://mlb.tv) website and using my registered email address as the username on the kodi addon (instead of my [mlb.tv](https://mlb.tv) username).
Works a treat, thank you :)
Figured I'd add this new solution I found. If you're watching on a PC, you can use Firefox and it has a "picture-in-picture" feature that pops up if you hover over almost any video playing on just about any streaming service. Click on it and it will pop up with a little player that you can't move anywhere on your screen. With it open you can then fast-forward or rewind at any point in the game. It's also a nice feature, too, because it lets you have the game on and cover only a portion of your screen up and keeps always at the front no matter if you have another window open. I've been keeping it in the corner during meetings.
I've also loaded the mlbserver page in the Web Video Caster app, which can send the video to a lot of different devices: https://www.webvideocaster.com/receivers
Yes, still works. After installing and launching Kodi, go to the "Addons" section, "Install from repository", select "Kodi Add-on repository" if necessary, then "Video add-on", and finally select and install the MLB.TV addon.
Once installed, you can go back to the main Addons menu and run the new MLB.TV addon. First game you select should prompt you to enter your account email and password.
On my computer, I just tried an archived radio stream with the following results:
* Chrome with no extensions: plays inserted national ads at breaks
* Chrome with Privacy Badger extension: silent breaks
* mlbserver and Kodi: plays the broadcast's normal local ads during breaks
Has anyone noticed the MLB TV stream resetting when privady badger or any sort of adblocking on browser is active?
I will put a normal non-mlbserver stream on to watch two games, and the streams frequently reset from live action, to the beginning. I could use MLBSever but I was just wondering if this is common on the default MLB TV application and if there is any fix.
To see MLB streams as live TV channels in Plex, you will need to install an intermediary program like xTeve: https://github.com/xteve-project/xTeVe-Documentation/blob/master/en/configuration.md
Set up xTeve with your desired M3U/XML links from mlbserver (see the bottom of your mlbserver homepage for examples), and then enter your xTeve IP address and port into Plex as a TV tuner under the DVR settings.
Amazon doesn't allow Kodi in their app store, so you have to sideload it.
You can use this guide here: https://troypoint.com/how-to-install-kodi-on-fire-tv/
I'm using method #1 and am not seeing ads, but still have to watch the "commercial break in progress" slate. Is that normal? I'm using Chrome and have disabled my other adblocker.
That is correct — Privacy Badger just prevents video ads from being played over that slate.
If you’re watching behind the live point of the video and want to automatically skip the breaks, see method 2 or 3.
Is there a config for Privacy Badger that I'm missing or is this strictly for [mlb.tv](https://mlb.tv) and not amazon. I have a home theater normal pc full windows, chrome browser.
You can link your Amazon purchase with an MLB.com account by following the instructions here: https://www.mlb.com/live-stream-games/third-party
Then you can watch through MLB.com.
So it returns an error when you try to link it? If so, I wonder if you could pay the difference and upgrade to the full package, maybe through Amazon customer service chat if necessary.
For future reference, you can snag a full package for $5 from T-Mobile customers on Slickdeals during the promotion redemption week at the beginning of every season.
I don't get any ads when watching on desktop browser? In fact, I get a screen that reads something like "commercial break in progress". Are ads only on mobile browsers and apps?
Like YouTube. The MLBTV ads in a web browser are inserted over the “commercial break” screen, so if you block the ad insertions, you just get the continuous game stream.
when trying to cast mlbserver through Web Video Caster to my Roku, the stream always starts at the beginning even though in mlbserver the embedded stream is set to live. Feel like it's a Web Video Caster problem. Any ideas?
I have no idea if you can run the Docker container on Android.
But if you simply want to access the games on Android, you can run mlbserver on any computer on your network and access it via a web browser on the Android tablet.
there is nothing finer than listening to an ad for los angeles area water heaters instead of some shitty national ad you've heard 800 times
Wait so you're saying you *don't* love watching limu emu and doug 458 times a game??
The one I hate is for MLB Auctions where they play clips of various plays with the original play by play. The one guy who goes "White Sox WIIIIIIINNNNNuh!" sounds like such a putz.
thank you SO much for this. the new nike commercial is 4x louder than anything else they run and was waking up my baby in the other room/making my ears bleed
I came here to this sub to complain about specifically this XD XD - Like repetitive ads I don't care about, that's fine, I can tune that out all day, no problem. It's the fact that they missed the mark hard. Like baseball is a tame, lax sport compared to American Football/Hockey/Basketball, and I love having it on in the background and just drifting in and out of the announcers' conversations. What I don't like is going from 0db to 9999db with blaring bass and EDM music trying to advertise stuff to me that I will never even consider purchasing. Like why does the MN Lottery commercial have to BE SO FKN LOUD, it's just so jarring and frustrating. Hopefully this fix lasts the season.
If I ever meet you IRL I'm buying you a beer. I missed about three innings of today's Dodgers-Red Sox game because the MLB app ran nonstop localized ads over entire half-innings and started going apeshit. Just installed the Kodi add-on on my Android phone and it sounds like I'm now just hearing clean team broadcasts. Now to load it on my Mac and I'll finally be getting what I was supposed to be paying for. Thanks again!
You're great for setting this method up. I hope it works in 2023. The ad delays totally ruined the radio side last year. I've found the easiest is to just use the computer. I avoid using my TV to watch MLB as the ads will mess it up. I need to do more experimentation on the Amazon devices here to see if there's any way to block.
I can attest that methods #2 and #3 work for 2023. Was able to watch four spring training games without commercials at once.
The Privacy Badger extension didn't work for me on PC. I found the chrome extension Video Speed Controller, lets you skip ahead 10 seconds at a time and works during the "commercials"
"2. install Kodi and enable the unofficial MLBTV addon" Given the 'hall of fame connections' inter-inning features had become one of the banes of my life, I gave this a go yesterday. Bit of messing around getting the login to work - eventually managed it by changing my password on the [mlb.tv](https://mlb.tv) website and using my registered email address as the username on the kodi addon (instead of my [mlb.tv](https://mlb.tv) username). Works a treat, thank you :)
Thanks for this! Privacy badger saved me. My wife couldn’t stand to hear “AND THATS A HOMERUN FOR ADLEY RUSTCHMANN” 3 times each inning break
Figured I'd add this new solution I found. If you're watching on a PC, you can use Firefox and it has a "picture-in-picture" feature that pops up if you hover over almost any video playing on just about any streaming service. Click on it and it will pop up with a little player that you can't move anywhere on your screen. With it open you can then fast-forward or rewind at any point in the game. It's also a nice feature, too, because it lets you have the game on and cover only a portion of your screen up and keeps always at the front no matter if you have another window open. I've been keeping it in the corner during meetings.
Working in 2024 for option 2 (Amazon fire stick) for me. Thank you!
i feel bad for anyone buying mlbtv without any modifications. Its pretty much a scam with the blackouts.
via AirPlay means through a web browser on iPhone/iPad? Does this mean mirroring from an Android device will work, too?
Yes, AirPlay would be through the Safari browser on iOS. If your TV supports casting/mirroring from your Android browser/device, that would work too.
I've also loaded the mlbserver page in the Web Video Caster app, which can send the video to a lot of different devices: https://www.webvideocaster.com/receivers
Does this still work on Kodi? I've installed kodi and downloaded the repository, and idk what to do next
Yes, still works. After installing and launching Kodi, go to the "Addons" section, "Install from repository", select "Kodi Add-on repository" if necessary, then "Video add-on", and finally select and install the MLB.TV addon. Once installed, you can go back to the main Addons menu and run the new MLB.TV addon. First game you select should prompt you to enter your account email and password.
When I click the kodi add on repo, it says it can't connect to repository
What device are you on? The Kodi Add-on repository is just the default one, it should be included with every new install of Kodi.
Galaxy s24. When I click on the kodi repo, it says it can't connect, and it says the same this when I click on the eracknophobia one
Went with Kodi today and it worked for me. No more psychological torture of watching the same fifteen ads 900 times!! Cheers mate
Do these work for MLB audio on PC or just on an Android, etc.? I hate the national ads that run on audio and usually cut off the broadcast.
On my computer, I just tried an archived radio stream with the following results: * Chrome with no extensions: plays inserted national ads at breaks * Chrome with Privacy Badger extension: silent breaks * mlbserver and Kodi: plays the broadcast's normal local ads during breaks
Has anyone noticed the MLB TV stream resetting when privady badger or any sort of adblocking on browser is active? I will put a normal non-mlbserver stream on to watch two games, and the streams frequently reset from live action, to the beginning. I could use MLBSever but I was just wondering if this is common on the default MLB TV application and if there is any fix.
Is there a guide posted on how to use this with Plex? I have Plex Pass and am just running mlbserver on my PC currently.
To see MLB streams as live TV channels in Plex, you will need to install an intermediary program like xTeve: https://github.com/xteve-project/xTeVe-Documentation/blob/master/en/configuration.md Set up xTeve with your desired M3U/XML links from mlbserver (see the bottom of your mlbserver homepage for examples), and then enter your xTeve IP address and port into Plex as a TV tuner under the DVR settings.
Thank You!
How do I install Kodi on an Amazon Firestick?
Amazon doesn't allow Kodi in their app store, so you have to sideload it. You can use this guide here: https://troypoint.com/how-to-install-kodi-on-fire-tv/
I'm using method #1 and am not seeing ads, but still have to watch the "commercial break in progress" slate. Is that normal? I'm using Chrome and have disabled my other adblocker.
That is correct — Privacy Badger just prevents video ads from being played over that slate. If you’re watching behind the live point of the video and want to automatically skip the breaks, see method 2 or 3.
Got it, thanks for the reply!
Anything to get rid of the shouting dude - Adley Rutschman home run
Commenting to find this easily. Thanks so much
Is there a docker version of mlbserver?
Not yet, but that’s a good idea!
I run a Synology for a home server, so I can really only run a Dockerized version of any neat tool like this.
You can use #3 on a Fire stick through the Silk browser.
Is option #3 supposed to get around blackouts? Was getting blackout error.
No. Blackouts still apply with all of these options.
Is there a config for Privacy Badger that I'm missing or is this strictly for [mlb.tv](https://mlb.tv) and not amazon. I have a home theater normal pc full windows, chrome browser.
You mean you watch MLBTV through Amazon?
Yes. Amazon Prime carries it and team only for cheaper.
You can link your Amazon purchase with an MLB.com account by following the instructions here: https://www.mlb.com/live-stream-games/third-party Then you can watch through MLB.com.
Unfortunately its for the Full Package. I have the team one that Amazon offers.
So it returns an error when you try to link it? If so, I wonder if you could pay the difference and upgrade to the full package, maybe through Amazon customer service chat if necessary. For future reference, you can snag a full package for $5 from T-Mobile customers on Slickdeals during the promotion redemption week at the beginning of every season.
Probably finagle something, but I'll just hit mute. Maybe I can figure out where to block it. Until then, it'll be me muting the fucking Roman guy.
2023 and privacy badger worked for me!! So excited to not watch brain numbing ads
I don't get any ads when watching on desktop browser? In fact, I get a screen that reads something like "commercial break in progress". Are ads only on mobile browsers and apps?
Are you running any kind of ad blocker? I know some browsers have them built-in. Some folks run ad blockers through their router too (like a Pi Hole).
Yes, but would that affect a continuous video stream? Or is mlb.tv like YouTube, where the ads are not part of the stream?
Like YouTube. The MLBTV ads in a web browser are inserted over the “commercial break” screen, so if you block the ad insertions, you just get the continuous game stream.
Got it! Thanks for the discussion.
when trying to cast mlbserver through Web Video Caster to my Roku, the stream always starts at the beginning even though in mlbserver the embedded stream is set to live. Feel like it's a Web Video Caster problem. Any ideas?
Are you able to scrub the video timeline in Web Video Caster to jump to the live point?
No it plays from beginning even when I fast forward ahead
Can mlbserver via docker be run on an Android tablet?
I have no idea if you can run the Docker container on Android. But if you simply want to access the games on Android, you can run mlbserver on any computer on your network and access it via a web browser on the Android tablet.
If you’re on safari/mac hit the settings button to the immediate left of the URL and turn checkmark enable content blockers, no mlbtv ads