I don't have a Braille sense either. if I get back to work, I'll save my shekels for a Packmate which has a pocket version of windows media player.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kane Brolin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 10:53 AM Subject: Re: MLB game day audio and BrailleSense > On 3/4/08, Gary G Schindler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I was able to listen to the Phillies and Pirates successfully yesterday. > > Gary, did you try this on your Braille Sense? I'm curious to see > whether this will work on a Braille Sense, BrailleNote, PAC Mate, or > (alternatively) an Icon. I haven't yet obtained one of these devices, > but plan to do so rather soon. It would be fun to have portable > access to MLB's media player through a wifi connection in the house. >> >> 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. > > This does happen sometimes. But I've not found that the MLB player > window is highly unstable. It usually stays with me as long as I want > it. >> >> When the ball clubs do webcasts, I wish the audio wouldn't sound so damn >> cheap. > > I guess that's why we pay around $15 for the entire season of just > audio feeds, while those who want the television feed pay nearly $15 > each month. There is a bandwidth difference. To be fair, the reason > why some of these audio feeds sound as though they were filtered or as > though they went through a bad phone line, is because that is > reflective of how the signal is fed into the radio stations carrying > the games. Even on HD radio, I doubt that you're getting CD-quality > sound from the ballparks. Most stations probably believe this is > unnecessary, since MLB over-the-air broadcasts usually are aired on > low-wattage talk or sports talk AM stations any more, not on great > clear channel stations and certainly not on FM stereo stations. I > think this year's audio feeds from MLB.com are better than last > year's. >> >> You gave a nice description of the various broadcast links. > > Thanks. I did this in case someone else on the list has an issue with > GameDay Audio in the future. > > One other thing to keep in mind: MLB.com does not use the exact same > media playing protocols for all feeds. For example, there's no way to > play archived daily fast casts or videos (as of interviews that were > done for MLB Radio) if you're using JAWS. You can get to these > interview or headline feeds, but because they're all offered only > using the SilverLight flash player, we as blind users have no way to > activate those feeds' PLAY mechanism. Fortunately, it is possible for > us to receive live or archived audio feeds of games, because even > though these are offered to us in SilverLight to start with, you can > "switch to original media player." It also is possible always to > listen to the audio feed of Baseball Channel.TV, which airs programs > such as "Staying Hot" and "Fantasy 411." This apparently doesn't > stream by default in SilverLight. > > One more final, final note: If you delete your cookies in Internet > Explorer, as I had to do yesterday for an unrelated reason, you'll > have to opt for the original media player again next time you turn on > a game feed. As long as you don't delete cookies, you'll not have to > make that selection each time; GameDay Audio will default to the > original media player setting > -Kane >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Kane Brolin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <[email protected]> >> 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" <[email protected]> >> >> 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] >> > > > 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]
