mlb.tv and firefox

by sirbrianwilson on Mar 31, 2008 12:09 PM PDT

So I have signed up for a premium account at mlb.tv. I've done this for a couple years and never experienced a problem.

I'm having a problem getting games to stream via firefox. I can get it to work in IE just fine, but firefox sits there and does nothing. I downloaded the nexdef plug-in and have the latest wmp (and silverlight).

Any ideas? Anyone else experiencing this?

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Same problem here.

Also, very unhappy that I can't do double screen mode any more in IE.

And to think, I could have chosen to support the Yankees or Red Sox...

by EnglishMariner on Mar 31, 2008 12:24 PM PDT reply actions

MLBAM is pathetic

They have this product for years. It's a great product. But they continue to mess up the technology. Every year there are so many technical problems with MLB.TV.

by phil333 on Mar 31, 2008 12:25 PM PDT reply actions

fixed.

abp needs to be disabled for mlb.com for silverlight to work.

by sirbrianwilson on Mar 31, 2008 12:25 PM PDT reply actions

what's abp?

And to think, I could have chosen to support the Yankees or Red Sox...

by EnglishMariner on Mar 31, 2008 12:32 PM PDT up reply actions

adblock plus

the best firefox extension ever. If silverlight doesn't work with it that's not good.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Mar 31, 2008 12:32 PM PDT up reply actions

Yeah I have that installed.

And no, I'm not removing it.,

Hmm, isn't there supposed to be a scoreboard on LL now? I can't see it. Maybe this is the reason why...

And to think, I could have chosen to support the Yankees or Red Sox...

by EnglishMariner on Mar 31, 2008 12:36 PM PDT up reply actions

You can just disable abp for a 15 seconds

It's annoying to do that every time, but not the end of the world.

The A's colors are green and gold.

by mikeA on Mar 31, 2008 12:38 PM PDT up reply actions

i just made mlb.com an "exception"

kind of sucks to do that, but i'd rather use firefox than IE.

firefox with no additional security software = safer than IE with lots of additional security software.

by sirbrianwilson on Mar 31, 2008 12:56 PM PDT up reply actions

Good fix.

Thanks!

by iheartjavelinas on Mar 31, 2008 1:08 PM PDT up reply actions

CC getting all hit up.

Hope that doesn't happen to Bedard today because it will give me real bad GTE pains [same applies to Felix as well].

And to think, I could have chosen to support the Yankees or Red Sox...

by EnglishMariner on Mar 31, 2008 1:06 PM PDT reply actions

Hmm wrong thread.

And to think, I could have chosen to support the Yankees or Red Sox...

by EnglishMariner on Mar 31, 2008 1:06 PM PDT reply actions

"Your request is being processed."

MLB.tv is timing out on me. It was working two hours ago, but now I can't get anything to work.

by Teej on Mar 31, 2008 2:21 PM PDT reply actions

How do you use the old player?

This Silverlight seems more choppy than last year.

by Teej on Mar 31, 2008 2:50 PM PDT up reply actions

How fast is your processor?

I've got a 1.6 GHz Pentium M and running a 400k stream with Silverlight in Firefox takes about 45-65% of my CPU cycles, so it's not choppy for me as long as I don't open any other apps that require much CPU.

by ubelmann on Mar 31, 2008 2:56 PM PDT up reply actions

Mine's 1.8

I've usually got a ton of Firefox windows open, but nothing else running.

The picture's not awful. It just looks worse than last year, even with the jump from 700K to 800K.

by Teej on Mar 31, 2008 3:12 PM PDT up reply actions

My main problem...

...is that it won't expand to full screen and I can't figure out how to get the URL through Silverlight.

by ubelmann on Mar 31, 2008 3:36 PM PDT up reply actions

It'll do that.

From what I've read, the Silverlight player doesn't support DirectX or OpenGL video rendering. This means no ability to play in WMP, and no fullscreen.

Worse off, once you install the silverlight player, the player browser window won't default to the WMP screen. You have to uninstall the silverlight entirely for the fullscreen and external players to work.

by Faux on Mar 31, 2008 3:45 PM PDT up reply actions

No Audio!

I'm getting no audio in either Firefox or IE. And the video quality is abominable, but not bad enough that I couldn't see that sick curveball for the first strikeout.

by david h on Mar 31, 2008 3:47 PM PDT reply actions

It got better.

They didn't have the feeds set up on time, so they went lo-fi and no sound until they got it up.

by Faux on Mar 31, 2008 4:33 PM PDT up reply actions

I can't get MLB.tv to work in FF, so I use Safari.

by Wilder. on Mar 31, 2008 7:47 PM PDT reply actions

hmm.

thanks for the adblock tip. Is anyone else's 800k stream looking just like 400k though? My tigers stream sure was too.

by weebs on Mar 31, 2008 9:08 PM PDT reply actions

There is a noticeable difference between 400K and 800K.

1.2 MB very noticeable as well, but it has framing problems (better picture, but is almost like it is being projected off a reel).

by Wilder. on Mar 31, 2008 10:19 PM PDT up reply actions

i see a big difference between 400 and 800.

most noticeably in the audio. the video is way less pixelated as well.

i don't see as much of a difference between 800 and 1.2. the picture is a bit more clear, i suppose. but overall it's not worth the tax on my bandwidth. maybe if i had a better computer/internet connection.

by sirbrianwilson on Mar 31, 2008 11:20 PM PDT up reply actions