[nfbcs] Fw: MLB - Figured It Out!

[Tracy Carcione]

Thanks Mike.  I'll save this message.
My husband got an archived game to play yesterday, after getting the MLB
gang on the phone.  Tonight we'll try for a live game, and see what
happens.
Tracy

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mike Freeman
> To: Lainey Feingold
> Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2010 10:25 AM
> Subject: MLB - Figured It Out!
>
>
> Dear Lainey:
>
> I have figured out the MLB Media Center streaming links. The "problem" I
> was having with the audio from the page http://mlb.mlb.com/mediacenter/
> was, strictly speaking, not a problem butt a "feature". Before explaining,
> let me stipulate that the Accessible GameDay Audio (reachable from the
> Media Center page as a link or as the default GameDay Audio from the
> Narrowband HOmepage) works as advertised. Now to the Media Center whose
> link is shown above.
>
> The table of games has, as you will see, both TV and GameDay (At Bat)
> Audio links for each game, at least for those of us with all-access. In
> all cases (both for currently-streaming games and for archived games), the
> TV links bring up the fancy accessible Flash Media Player (the one with
> the REWIND, FAST FORWARD, PLAY/PAUSE, MUTE, ARCHIVE, TODAY and VOLUME
> buttons), assuming that the game one wishes to watch is not part of one's
> blackout zone.
>
> The fancy Flash Media Player described above is *also* brought up for
> archived GameDay Audio games from this page. (That's *fantastic* for
> fast-forwarding through the commercials!) AS the MLB site notes, processor
> load is fairly intensive for this Flash application. Gives something for
> my computer fans to do. (grin)
>
> The "rub" comes in when one clicks on a the At Bat GameDay Audio stream
> for a game currently being played from the Media Center page. I wrote you
> that the audio didn't come up. I was right and I was wrong. The actual
> situation is as follows: there is a "Log In" link from the Media Center
> page. When one clicks on this link, a "Log In" frame expands with fields
> for email address and password and a "Submit" link which logs one in and
> updates the log in frame. If one has *not* logged in via this frame before
> clicking on a GameDay Audio link for a currently-streaming game, this
> frame expands and, as described, one logs in. Once this is done, the audio
> comes up.
>
> Here's the tricky part: if one *has* logged in *before* clicking on the
> audio for a game currently being played, one must go back and find the
> "Log In" link and click on it *again* for the audio to come up.
>
> Once the audio comes up, the player is kind of neat -- no volume controls
> (but then MLB didn't have them for GameDay Audio till now anyway) but
> there are radio buttons which, when pressed, allow one to switch between
> the various streams for the game being listened to.
>
> I realize this won't be of interest to most of your ACB MLB GameDay Audio
> subscribers but for those of us with All Access or whatever it's called
> now, it explains why the audio links for currently-live-streaming games
> appear not to work -- one must click on the "Log In" button to make them
> play, whether or not one has logged in. If one is already logged in, the
> audio comes up. If one is not, the Log In frame comes up and after being
> filled out and the form submitted, the audio comes up pretty as you
> please.
>
> Incidentally, I've touted the fancy MLB Media Player to several people as
> being one of a very few Flash apps that really are accessible (the CBS
> Radio Play.It player is another).
>
> I promise: I won't bother you any more with this one. But figured you'd
> want the explanation. Simply put: the audio of live games on the Media
> Center page requires one to click the Log In link to get it going even if
> one has already logged in.
>
> Have a great day.
>
> Mike
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