mattiasa / mlbtv-docker

MLB.TV Downloader

This is a docker image which can be used to download and transcode a game from mlb.tv to a format suitable to watch on for example an ipad.

I use it to create an mp4 with the video from the TV video stream and the radio audio stream.

The scripts also detects any silence longer than 5 seconds in the TV audio feed and cuts that section out from both the video and the audio. This removes the commercial breaks since they are silent in the TV audio stream.

For locally broadcast games, both the home and away audio streams are available and the script will select the one for the team given on the command line. For nationally broadcast games only the home radio feed is available.

Podcast feed

If you have a webserver set up to point to the video directory then you can access the file podcast.xml with a podcast app capable of displaying video. Personally, I use this with a cron job to download games over night to have them freshly available in my phone when I wake up in the morning.

The base url to the podcast file can be modified with the BASEURL environment variable in docker-compose.yml.

Requirements

• docker
• docker-compose

Running

Build the image with

docker-compose build

Then run it with:

docker-compose run --rm mlbtv /mlbviewer/mlbplay.py v=chc

This will create an mp4 file in the videos directory.