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Mac Forum / Applications / Media Player / May 2005MLB.TV Full Screen possible on my MAC??
I'm about to sign up for the mlb.tv package so I can watch games on my computer. The demo video clips seem to play fine in the embedded media viewer of the web browser, but I can't resize the window for a bigger screen. According to the help page at MLB.tv, they say to simply CTRL click on the video window and then a window will pop up where you can choose to play the stream in a standalone player (like Realplayer). The standalone players will allow you to resize the window to whatever you want. The only problem is, I get no such option when I CTRL click on the video window! I've tried looking at the page source for a direct link to the stream file but I can't make that work either. Can somebody with more 'net savvy than me go visit mlb.tv and tell me how to watch the video in a bigger window? There are a few free clips to watch, so you don't have to sign up for anything to test them. Thanks a bunch, I'm pulling my hair out here! >>>>> "Lance" == Lance Berkman <none@none.com> writes: Lance> According to the help page at MLB.tv, they say to simply CTRL Lance> click on the video window and then a window will pop up where Lance> you can choose to play the stream in a standalone player Lance> (like Realplayer). The standalone players will allow you to Lance> resize the window to whatever you want. You may have to turn off pop-up blocking in your browser (if it's turned on). Emily  Signature"If it seem slow, wait for it; it will surely come, it will not delay." Emily Jackson E-mail address altered; reply to m5comp AT fastmail DOT fm <http://home.hiwaay.net/~emilyj/missjackson.html> All very nice for live games. However, MLB archieved games are streamed only in Windows media and there is no right click ability in the Mac version of the player, so its basically impossible to play windows media content in the seperate player or even in full screen. Anyone have an ideas or know of a utility out there is extract the mms url, so you can cut and paste it into the Player itself? > >>>>> "Lance" == Lance Berkman <none@none.com> writes: > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > E-mail address altered; reply to m5comp AT fastmail DOT fm > <http://home.hiwaay.net/~emilyj/missjackson.html> >I'm about to sign up for the mlb.tv package so I can watch games on my >computer. The demo video clips seem to play fine in the embedded media >viewer of the web browser, but I can't resize the window for a bigger >screen. Viewing games in full-screen mode in the mac version of WMP has never worked. People (including myself) have been telling mlb.com about this for more than a year. Last year we still got replies from tech support (promising that they'd look into the matter) but my last inquiry (dating back about 2 weeks) has never been answered - obviously they simply don't care. The sad fact is that in order to watch archived games in any format larger than "stamp-size", you'll have to buy a Windows PC (which is probably what Microsoft told mlb.com as well ...). I also seriously doubt there's going to be a new version of Windows Mediaplayer for Mac. What I think is worst about the whole situation is that Mlb.com is still telling everyone that they support the Mac platform - which clearly is a lie. MLB.com were entangled in some legal issues (they signed a new contract with Microsoft last year and forgot that they still had to honor the one they had with Real Media) and the consumer is now the victim. Peter > I'm about to sign up for the mlb.tv package so I can watch > games on my [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > > Thanks a bunch, I'm pulling my hair out here! You can trick Safari into playing the game in full screen using Windows Media Player. To to this, you need to remove the Windows Media Player Plug-In from the internet plugins folder (it’s located in HD-Library-Internet PlugIns-Windows Media Plugin). After you do this, Safari will ask you if you want to us the WMP application (rather than the web based plugin for WMP) when watching a MLB.TV stream. SignaturePosted using the http://www.macforumz.com interface, at author's request Articles individually checked for conformance to usenet standards Topic URL: http://www.macforumz.com/Media-Player-MLB.TV-Full-Screen-MAC-ftopict147006.html Visit Topic URL to contact author (reg. req'd). Report abuse: http://www.macforumz.com/eform.php?p=587900 Nope doesn't work just asks for the plug-in and leads you to the wmp download page.....no tricking safari with that one |
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