[nfbcs] Fw: MLB - Figured It Out!

[Mike Freeman]

You're welcome!

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
To: "NFBnet NFBCS Mailing List" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 5:19 AM
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Fw: MLB - Figured It Out!


> 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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