MLB.TV Mosaic: baseball nirvana

I have a MacBook Pro w/ Intel 2.33 Ghz, Mac OS X 10.4.8, with Safari 2.0.4.

Tried to listen to GameDay Audio on my new MacBook Pro. Tried again after downloading WMP for Mac, v. 9.0. Message came up saying Safari doesn't support or have that particular plug in. Says to try in WMP, which I do, which results in the WMP player loading then getting a simple message saying an error occurred. BTW, MLB.com tech support and/or customer service, NOT impressive despite her being nice.

Anyone using a MacBook Pro and consistently getting on to GameDay Audio via another browser like Firefox or other software like Flip4mac which I know little about.

OR Is Macintosh platform and GameDay audio simply not happening?

thanks in advance,
Murray

I have been unable to get Mosaic working on my mac. I am able to log in but in a couple seconds the mosaic player shuts down. If I trying to view the video in a browsers it doesn't work either. Firefox shuts down. Safari shuts down. Netscape doesn't shut down, but it doesn't work. This may be related to some other issue. When I try to watch video on other sites, for example cnn, I get the same results.

Any ideas?

I've been camped out in front of the TV all ay watching baseball in glorious High-Def! DirecTV has a special channel where can watch eight games at once, and you can toggle between the audio. Of course, that costs extra. ;-)

Go Nats!

D'oh. I just tried to use mosaic with my two monitor setup and it couldn't deal at all in full screen. It was running windowed on the secondary monitor, and when I clicked "full screen" it ran full screen video on the primary monitor and blacked out the secondary monitor.

I guess I'm back to using the old mlb.tv in quicktime player for now.

Last year I always used Camino or Firefox and for the most part I didn't have any problems. Once Mosaic was launched in the middle of last season, I tended to use that without any major problems.

"...allow you to watch one game at a time in a browser window"

There's a setting in the flip4mac pref. pane that's very handy here: "Launch QuickTime Player" The MLB.tv popup will open, and then quicktime player will launch with the game video. (Of course you can then close your browser and watch the video full screen.)

@umijin: I think you meant "stopped working in Safari" (as opposed to "on Macs"). I never had any problems in firefox.

Gotta love opening day. Everyone's undefeated! (Sorry, Cardinal fans.)

go A's!

GameDay Audio stopped working last year on Macs, around September, because of an incompatibility with Safari and FlipForMac. They made no attempt to repair the issue for the rest of the season, and the only way it would work was via the old Windows Media Player for Mac via Safari, and then only sometimes.

The GameDay Audio Tech support was not very helpful or informative, and I had to threaten to terminate my subscription before they came up with the kludgy Windows Media player solution. This year, when my subscription was supposed to be renewed a month before the season - I asked the custo support people if they would guarantee Mac functionality. I've had no response since that time.

You can see my fun correspondence with them in August here:

http://mackenchi.blogspot.com/2006_08_01_archive.html

I haven't tried the Game Day Audio this season yet, but would be wary about that as well as the MLB TV (though it seems to work in the above screen shots).

Sorry, I think there was a typo in your post.

I think you meant to say "Go (Defending American League Champion Detroit) Tigers!"

I'll just assume that's what you meant. No need to issue a retraction / correction. :)

You have to watch 6 games at once to stay awake.

To quote Homer Simpson about baseball:

"I never knew how boring this game was until I gave up beer."