I dont use the xml guide from the container so i cant speak to that. I use the gracenote fubu guide data. When trying to create a pass for the Nats it scheduled every mlb game. I think that mlb in itself is a series as far as Gracenote is concerned. I had to add a constraint to just record the home feed channel for the Nats and it worked fine.
I’m fairly certain channels uses TeamIDs= to set team passes but I’m not sure if that data could be added into his guide. If you use Gracenote ids as @slampman noted your team pass will work if you search for your team and choose the generic team thumbnail(not an upcoming game). It will then record just your team and not all the mlb games. If you use Gracenote you will see sign off in the blocks without a game.
If @tonywagner wants to try adding team ids here are about half the teams ids I m not sure if ids work without Gracenote station ids. If that’s the case and you have to use station ids for team ids to work you can do that already.
Orioles TeamIDs= 3
Cubs 5
Reds 7
Guardians 23385
Tigers 10
Astros 11
Royals 13
Dodgers 15
Mets 18
Phillies 21
Padres 23
Mariners 25
Giants 24
Cardinals 26
Rangers 28
The new alternate guide combined with team ids but not station id would be ideal.
to the best of my knowledge and past testing, there is no mechanism in the backend that enables a coalescing of gracenote sourced data with xmltv data.
even if there are teamid properties that exist in the xmltv.
it would be fantastic if that functionality could, would, does exist.
Any support for masn+?
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For just a few bucks more you can get the full mlb tv 
and... be able to get the radio feed audio so you can actually stand to listen to their announcers lol. (Im a nats fan too)
If MASN+ streams don’t use DRM, then it could potentially be added as a provider in EPlusTV. I recommend reaching out in that thread ESPN+ & FOX Sports with Custom Channels via EPlusTV
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Ive having issues running mlbserver via docker involving ffmpeg hardware acceleration on my qnap ts-464. Whenever I try to manually enable ffmpeg_encoder env it gives me unknown encoder for the ones that are supposed to work. Otherwise it uses software decoding which is too slow for multiview. How do I go about fixing this?
On top of that after getting ffmpeg_encoder to h264_v4l2m2m and setting it up ffmpeg_path it poops out this error on my qnap when I try to run multiview
Input #3, hls, from 'http://127.0.0.1:9999/stream.m3u8?event=MLBN&resolution=504p':
Duration: N/A, start: 18357.898622, bitrate: N/A
Program 0
Metadata:
variant_bitrate : 1942884
Stream #3:0: Video: h264 (Main) ([27][0][0][0] / 0x001B), yuv420p, 896x504 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 90k tbn
Metadata:
variant_bitrate : 1942884
Stream #3:1(und): Audio: aac (LC) ([15][0][0][0] / 0x000F), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp
Metadata:
variant_bitrate : 1942884
Stream #3:2: Data: timed_id3 (ID3 / 0x20334449)
Metadata:
variant_bitrate : 1942884
Stream mapping:
Stream #0:0 (h264) -> setpts:default
Stream #1:0 (h264) -> setpts:default
Stream #2:0 (h264) -> setpts:default
Stream #3:0 (h264) -> setpts:default
xstack:default -> Stream #0:0 (h264_v4l2m2m)
Stream #0:1 -> #0:1 (copy)
Stream #1:1 -> #0:2 (copy)
Stream #2:1 -> #0:3 (copy)
Stream #3:1 -> #0:4 (copy)
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
[h264_v4l2m2m @ 0x8885440] Could not find a valid device
[h264_v4l2m2m @ 0x8885440] can't configure encoder
[vost#0:0/h264_v4l2m2m @ 0x8af7bc0] Error while opening encoder - maybe incorrect parameters such as bit_rate, rate, width or height.
[fc#0 @ 0x843c1c0] Error sending frames to consumers: No such device or address
[fc#0 @ 0x843c1c0] Task finished with error code: -6 (No such device or address)
[vost#0:0/h264_v4l2m2m @ 0x8af7bc0] Could not open encoder before EOF
[vost#0:0/h264_v4l2m2m @ 0x8af7bc0] Task finished with error code: -22 (Invalid argument)
[vost#0:0/h264_v4l2m2m @ 0x8af7bc0] Terminating thread with return code -22 (Invalid argument)
[fc#0 @ 0x843c1c0] Terminating thread with return code -6 (No such device or address)
[out#0/hls @ 0x8af2380] Nothing was written into output file, because at least one of its streams received no packets.
frame= 0 fps=0.0 q=0.0 Lsize= 0KiB time=N/A bitrate=N/A speed=N/A
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So i found you can buy it through mlb.tv and it just adds it as an enhancement - my previous...uh setup stopped working so i bought it and it seems to work great through this container
Awesome stuff
You should be able to add “&skip=pitches” to the end of the streams generated by the M3U. That triggers mlbserver to look up the pitch by pitch timestamps for that game, and drop any video segments that don’t correspond to actions pitches.
Of course, skipping anything implies more VOD or time shifting than live viewing. Depending on when you plan to watch, you may also want to add “&force_vod=on” if you want to start live games from the beginning, or “&date=yesterday” if you want to watch yesterday’s game. For example, the following URL will always stream yesterday's Jays game and skip non-action pitches:
http://IP.ADDRESS.OF.YOUR.COMPUTER:9999/stream.m3u8?team=TOR&resolution=best&skip=pitches&date=yesterday
Then it’s just a matter of adding that stream URL as an additional custom channel in Channels.
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hi Tony, thanks so much for this recommendation, my thoughts are once I get this working, I can set up a daily recording at 1am or something to record yesterday's game with the skip pitches setting, and then I can watch and resume it as my leisure using Channels!
but I can't get it working. I'm trying to add it as a Custom Channel via URL
and I'm getting an error that says failed to load m3u: malformed M3U provided: Appears to be an HLS m3u8 playlist
next I tried entering it as Text using the following:
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="My Mets Channel",My Mets Channel
http://192.168.50.143:9999/stream.m3u8?team=NYM&resolution=best&skip=pitches&date=yesterday
But it doesn't work when I try to view the stream using Channels.
Any advice?
The text source looks like it should work, but I don’t use Channels, so someone else might have to chime in to confirm.
The example URL I gave from mlbserver is the direct m3u8 stream link, rather than a m3u playlist link, so it’s understandable that trying to add it as an m3u URL in Channels would fail.
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@tonywagner This is great! I added it to the Channels server I have set up for my Mom but was wondering if it also picks up the AUSL games that are being broadcast this year? She's a big fan and that's a large part of why she got access to MLB.tv / Network as some of the games are exclusive to there. They're on a break again until Monday so wasn't sure if I'd be seeing them pop up on the guide or not.
Also, I seem to be experiencing something similar to what was mentioned here: Mlb.tv update - #256 by CubsWin
I added the Twins as a favorite team in mlbserver so that it would pick up Wichita Wind Surge games but even though they're playing at home right now and it's live via the MLB app, the channel on my guide indicates their next game as being on Tuesday. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!
I don’t think so. I suspect AUSL games will just be special events in the MLB app/website, rather than games in a feed like MLB/MiLB games.
I will look into this. I think it works if your M3U URL uses the “includesTeams=MIN” parameter. But I too am not seeing Wichita otherwise.
Thanks, appreciate you looking into it. The team they're currently in a series with is a Dodgers affiliate and even though it's a Wind Surge home game, if I add the Dodgers as a favorite team I can see the game. Will go ahead and leave that in place for the time being for tomorrow's game.
This is fixed now in version 2025.7.5
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I removed LAD as a favorite, re-deployed the updated stack with the latest image and can confirm I'm seeing the Wichita game on the guide after reloading the M3U and redownloading the XMLTV. Thanks again!
Hi all, after rolling along fine all season, I’m suddenly getting access denied (403) errors when I try to load the webpage. I’ve tried logging in on the web and it works just fine, even changed my password to see if that would help. Any ideas? Here’s my log:
7/11/2025, 6:32:06 PM stream.m3u8 request : /stream.m3u8?team=NYY&mediaType=Video&resolution=best&includeBlackouts=true from: ::ffff:192.168.5.185 using: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/106.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
http post failed : 403 - "\n<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN\"\n \"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd\">\n<html>\n <head>\n <title>403 Access Denied</title>\n </head>\n <body>\n <h1>Error 403 Access Denied</h1>\n <p>Access Denied</p>\n <h3>Error 54113</h3>\n <p>Details: cache-hhr-khhr2060024-HHR 1752280329 2241014353</p>\n <hr>\n <p>Varnish cache server</p>\n </body>\n</html>\n"
{
url: 'https://ids.mlb.com/oauth2/aus1m088yK07noBfh356/v1/token',
headers: {
'user-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/133.0.0.0 Safari/537.36',
'content-type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
},
{
username: 'email',
password: 'password',
grant_type: 'password',
scope: 'openid offline_access',
client_id: '0oa3e1nutA1HLzAKG356'
},
jar: RequestJar {
_jar: CookieJar { enableLooseMode: true, store: [FileCookieStore] }
}
}
Still working for me. Can you clear your session and cache? There's a link to do that at the bottom of the mlbserver web page, but if the page won't load, you can just delete the cache and data folders and restart your mlbserver container/process.
If the error persists, I'd suspect a location detection / network configuration issue.
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