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MLB TV on the Mac
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Huh, I must be having a "dumb" day b/c I can't figure out Mosaic (I paid for the prem package). I use flip4mac... Gonna have to keep messing around w/ this..
Tried that exact thing.
When I click on the video launcher it still comes up at as a plug-in
I swear I didn't do anything different, but when I tried to tonight it worked (full screen and all).
Thanks for the help.
I love my MCP
Thanks for the help.
I love my MCP
Is anyone else getting completely inconsistent service from MLB.tv? I purchased a month subscription a couple weeks ago and at this point I don't see a reason to subscribe further after it runs out.
Before anyone asks me what my bandwidth is, I'm running FiOS at 5 megabits (just tested) so that's not the problem.
About 5% of the time the stream is perfect. The rest of the time I get stalled buffering, stuttering video, freezing video that never restarts, and poorly synced audio. The audio is probably the worst of the problems. Sometimes the audio is running a few seconds in front of video feed.
As an example, today I've experienced, freezing video and terrible synced audio on the Cubs game. And trying to watch any kind of replays of yesterdays Rays game results in a failed buffer (consistently at about 15 seconds remaining).
This is on a C2D 20" iMac. I'm using Firefox with Flip4Mac. The problems persist with the in-browser player and also when I save the streaming file and open it in Quicktime.
It's kinda sad. This service could be awesome.
Anyone else seeing these issues?
Before anyone asks me what my bandwidth is, I'm running FiOS at 5 megabits (just tested) so that's not the problem.
About 5% of the time the stream is perfect. The rest of the time I get stalled buffering, stuttering video, freezing video that never restarts, and poorly synced audio. The audio is probably the worst of the problems. Sometimes the audio is running a few seconds in front of video feed.
As an example, today I've experienced, freezing video and terrible synced audio on the Cubs game. And trying to watch any kind of replays of yesterdays Rays game results in a failed buffer (consistently at about 15 seconds remaining).
This is on a C2D 20" iMac. I'm using Firefox with Flip4Mac. The problems persist with the in-browser player and also when I save the streaming file and open it in Quicktime.
It's kinda sad. This service could be awesome.
Anyone else seeing these issues?
Ok, I can answer one of my own questions. The streaming of the highlights was solved by unchecking the box for "creating streaming movies" in the Flip4Mac preferences. That forces the streams to become progressive downloads, which keeps it from stalling for whatever reason. I'm not sure if this will solve my other problems though. Time will tell.
Same here for me...& it hasn't been isolated to today's Cubs v. Reds game--every game I get audio that is out of sync w/ the video. I paid for the season-long prem package, so I am supposed get the 700kbps feed... It's really annoying to here the result of the play/pitch, then see the video of it a couple seconds later... Oh, & using Flip4mac w/ QT, I have no clue how to get Mosaic to work either..
As long as it takes? Come on now who won the AL last year? I am a Tigers fan and always will be and they were not a fluke last year they are the real deal.
As far as MLBtv goes I regret purchasing it. PLEASE try it for one month before you slam down $ 120. I hate it very clunky video and customer service is a joke you cannot talk to a real person.
If anyone has cable they finally offered it to cable customers thanks to threats from the US Senate led by John Kerry. I think the free preview goes on through Sunday, 159 for early bird package.
Mosaic is emailed to you just open it like an App, but it is very disappointing very slow, and disconbobulated.
Yeah, I was just using those games as an example. I'm having the same problem as you. Getting synced audio is really a roll of the dice, so to speak. Using the progressive downloads as I mention in my previous post didn't solve the problem either. Luckily I just did the month premium package. I'll probably not be renewing unless they miraculously work this thing out.
Why is it so hard for them to get this working properly? This is 2007, streaming video shouldn't be so convoluted. Congrats MLB on a crappy service that, from what people here have mentioned, was pretty good in the past.
I have been using Mosaic to watch Yankee games and it's not perfect but it's better then nothing. Make sure your using the newest build of Mosaic. Through out the first month of the season they have been posting newer builds that have been fixing bugs and improving performance. In particular the newest build significantly lowered the CPU usage on my Powerbook. You can find information on various technical issues at the blog MLB has set up for Mosaic.
http://mosaic.mlblogs.com/
If your behind a firewall, hardware or software, you will probably see some improvements in opening up the necessary ports.
http://mosaic.mlblogs.com/
If your behind a firewall, hardware or software, you will probably see some improvements in opening up the necessary ports.
Is there any Mac user who is at least satisfied w/ mlb tv? Using flip4mac on my 2 month old MBP, the video is blurry, way out of sync w/ audio & actually seems to be going in what can be termed "semi-slow motion".
I have QT prefs set to open the QT player for streaming video. My cable Inet connection is a respectable 12Mbps down/1Mbps up. I can watch mlb tv on my crappy work windows PC (celeron processor & no dedicated video card) w/out any of these issues--video is clear, no syncing problems, etc. I just don't get why I can't even get a decent viewing experience, and this is for every game I have tried to watch (at least 4 per week since the season started). Can anyone offer any suggested tweaks I can try to make mlb tv watchable on my Mac? I'd hate to have to buy a cheap windows PC to actually enjoy mlb tv....
I have QT prefs set to open the QT player for streaming video. My cable Inet connection is a respectable 12Mbps down/1Mbps up. I can watch mlb tv on my crappy work windows PC (celeron processor & no dedicated video card) w/out any of these issues--video is clear, no syncing problems, etc. I just don't get why I can't even get a decent viewing experience, and this is for every game I have tried to watch (at least 4 per week since the season started). Can anyone offer any suggested tweaks I can try to make mlb tv watchable on my Mac? I'd hate to have to buy a cheap windows PC to actually enjoy mlb tv....
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Can someone tell what specific ports I need to open? I have the software firewall on, and I am also behind the -n enabled Airport Extreme Base Station..
PhillyMac, I have never really gotten Windows Media to play on my mac. Even after downloading flip for mac. sorry to hear about the loss of the phillies games. Good Luck
Maybe Sweet Lou and that $300 million will get you all a third place finish this year!
Oh, and sorry about Jason Marquis, I wouldn't even wish him on Cubs' fans.
And obviously you'd rather be handed a first place title that you didn't earn... I can see why you'd be proud of that... everyone knows the World Series last year was a complete joke... that's no championship...
Hey folks--
Time for a new season's worth of questions.
I downloaded the silverlight player this year, and now it seems like I can't do what I did last year with flip4mac opening the stream in QT and doing it full screen. I even click on "Use original media player" and it went back to the old player, but it wouldn't open in a new QT window (and yes, I went into system preferences and checked "Launch Quicktime Player" in flip4mac). Any way around this? Or any way to get silverlight to go full screen?
edit:
And right when I go to try it again, QT opened and it worked. Disregard that whole part of the post.
How have you found silverlight to work on the mac?
Time for a new season's worth of questions.
I downloaded the silverlight player this year, and now it seems like I can't do what I did last year with flip4mac opening the stream in QT and doing it full screen. I even click on "Use original media player" and it went back to the old player, but it wouldn't open in a new QT window (and yes, I went into system preferences and checked "Launch Quicktime Player" in flip4mac). Any way around this? Or any way to get silverlight to go full screen?
edit:
And right when I go to try it again, QT opened and it worked. Disregard that whole part of the post.
How have you found silverlight to work on the mac?
OK, so question.
Last year, I used flip4mac and it would open up the game in a separate QT window. This was GREAT because I could pause it at my leisure and come back to watch the game "live." However, with the new MLB.tv player, it's not opening up in a flip4mac window anymore. During spring training, they had a link to the original player, but that seems to have disappeared now. Any ideas?
Last year, I used flip4mac and it would open up the game in a separate QT window. This was GREAT because I could pause it at my leisure and come back to watch the game "live." However, with the new MLB.tv player, it's not opening up in a flip4mac window anymore. During spring training, they had a link to the original player, but that seems to have disappeared now. Any ideas?
Have you tried contacting MLB TV and asking them? Have you bought the service yet? Call Customer Service.
Yeah, I'm subscribed. I sent an e-mail to customer service, but no response so far (after three days), except a message to tell me they have a high volume of questions and it would take a while to get to mine. I'll call them next week.