Archive for April, 2009

MLB.tv NexDef On OS X

I have found myself growing tired of paying for cable TV, so this year I wanted to see if I could use MLB.tv as a replacement. One of the major new features MLB is marketing for MLB.tv in 2009 is called “NexDef” and purports to provide an HD stream along with DVR functionality. How could I go wrong?

As it turns out, NexDef runs as a daemon on both Windows and Mac (it uses Autobahn). There is a shell app that launches at boot and invokes a Java http server. Leaving aside the ugliness of the whole solution, having it running More >