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OK, maybe this is more of a cry for help than a rant, because there's no way that MLB is this stupid. I was excited to see that NexDef!!11 was available tonight because I wanted to give it a spin. Apparently you need to use the Silverlight player not WMP (though I'm not sure about this, hopefully I'm wrong) to view the 1.2mb feed (this is a screenshot of the 800k feed, BTW - I could make a subrant right now about how the 1.2mb feed just decided to stop working). I have an HTPC setup so I was just going to skip EI altogether and go with MLB.tv this year. Maybe not. Here's what the "full screen" mode looks like:

I get that and I also get what looks to be a slower frame rate, maybe 12 fps instead of 24.

The Red Sox-Dodgers game has the added benefit of the 2b umpire standing between the Coliseum's CF camera and home plate.

Can't you also just use the old mode? Maybe some codecs you have with media center are conflicting with silverlight.

thats what happened to me...and i can't download silverlight

You had me at "Microsoft".

jim wrote:You had me at "Microsoft".

AdmiralKird wrote:Can't you also just use the old mode? Maybe some codecs you have with media center are conflicting with silverlight.

That's what I'm doing now. I can't get it to stretch fullscreen (and I don't want to mess with res setting every time I watch a game), but it looks much better now. At least it's centered. I searched google and apparently people all over the place are whining about this, so hopefully MLB is aware and already doing something about this. Also, it seems like the black space around the picture is supposed to be for whatever features they want to surround the video with, but weren't there for the free preview. Maybe they'll have it all resolved today.

Until then, WMP and 800k looks pretty good. To be honest, I couldn't tell much difference between the 1.2 and 800 streams anyway.



EDIT: Bleh, now I'm noticing that the video kind of warps on wide shots. Tracking a fly ball, e.g. Oh well.

The live feed didn't seem to have the same problem, but everytime I look at a highlight on mlb.com now the audio and image feed hiccup every few seconds. I never had this problem with the previous "player" that they used. Grr.

I tried the 1.2 with Silverlight and it worked pretty well for me. I could definitely tell the difference between that and the 800 feed. A little jumpy in places though.