I was able to listen to the Phillies and Pirates successfully yesterday. everything is back to normal now. the only thing worth mentioning is I lost my feed when browsing to another site on the internet. I was looking at some podcasts and my window disappeared thus my audio was gone. I do wish when the ball clubs do webcasts, I wish the audio wouldn't sound so damn cheap. you gave a nice description of the various broadcast links.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kane Brolin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 5:40 PM Subject: Re: MLB game day audio and BrailleSense > On 3/2/08, Gary G Schindler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I am glad you brought up the silver lite thing. somehow I was able to go >> back and choose the classic media player. > > I heard from a tech support rep at Freedom Scientific today. He > affirms that, as far as he knows, SilverLight is not accessible to > JAWS. In fact, the program might have been developed specifically so > that only a mouse could invoke the SilverLight player. (Thanks again > for your "sensitivity" to access issues, Microsoft!) >> >> When I tried the silverlight thing, I was >> told something about doing maintenance and to try later which didn't make >> sense >> at the time when I wanted to listen to a live ball game. > > Gary, I got that same message after switching from the SilverLight > player to the classic media player and trying to listen to a game this > past Friday. However, today I received some positive results: I > loaded the GameDay Audio page, chose a feed I wanted to hear, logged > in with my password, and realized that Internet Explorer had > remembered my preference for the classic media player. I didn't have > to select it again. And after getting past the security prompts, the > game played just fine and with much better and more consistent audio > quality than I had remembered from 2007. >> >> somehow I thought that I may have clicked on the TV feed by accident. > > During spring training, interestingly enough, some of those TV feeds > actually are viewable by those who haven't paid the $14.99/month--or > whatever it is--to watch the live TV games. MLB.com makes those > available to us as a promotional thing, of course, so that people who > benefit from the visuals will buy the MLB video package. You probably > know that you can opt for a certain home team or road team audio feed > just by clicking on the name of the flagship station where the program > airs in the radio world. For instance, I caught part of the St. > Louis-Washington game earlier today and was able to go straight to it > by clicking on the link labeled WWWT, which is the name of the > Washington Nationals' flagship station this season. Usually the video > feeds, while not named after a station, are named by the type or speed > of the Web stream: such as 750K or 400K. > Happy listening. Play ball! > > -Kane >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "KANE BROLIN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> >> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 5:51 PM >> Subject: Re: MLB game day audio and BrailleSense >> >> >> > HHi, Gary and others. >> > >> > I've run MLB's GameDay Audio on a PC for ten years now. Just this year, >> > I've discovered that MLB tends now to play most of its multimedia content >> > inside a Microsoft SilverLight frame--somewhat somilar to an Adobe Flash >> > Player frame, except it's Microsoft's proprietary flash player. Even on a >> > PC, this causes lots of problems if one is totally without eyesight and >> > running a screen reader, because JAWS does not seem to recognize or allow >> me >> > to invoke any of the buttons inside of the SilverLight frame with the >> > keyboard. I've brought up this issue on the PC Audio Discussion List >> > previously, and I've presented it to JAWS Tech Support too. No answer as >> > yet. >> > >> > You do have the option sometimes to make MLB's site honor your preference >> of >> > going back to their "classic" media player, which seems to be just Windows >> > Media Player running inside a separate IE window. This works as long as >> > MLB's multimedia sites are up and runnning. >> > >> > All this might cause a problem with Braille Sense. But since I've not >> used >> > a Braille Sense before, I regr3ettably can't help you there. >> > >> > -Kane >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >> > http://www.pc-audio.org >> > >> > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >> Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >> http://www.pc-audio.org >> >> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
