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  • Darn, can't see it. I get Error 1502
    A newer version of Silverlight is already installed on this machine.

    Hope this is a Beta Issue. Never see anything annoying like that in Flash.

  • Isn't MoonLight for the Mono project available for Linux now?

  • I was wondering why the video didn't work for me. I use only linux and won't touch MoonLight. I guess that until MLB.com folks get their heads on straight and decide to serve everyone instead of a portion of fans they will just lose traffic.

  • Hi, I'm an Italian baseball player and computer science engineer.
    Last year I was so happy to enjoy MLB.TV, because Italian pay-tv dismissed showing baseball games, than I was so pleased to know about this year bandwidth improvements to 1.2Mbits, dreaming about near HD baseball through the web!!!
    After an annoing 400k during spring training... I was horrified to see the poor quality and performance of what is claimed to be "the next generation of Windows Media technology from Microsoft". That is the point MICROSOFT!
    The use of Silverlight is seen to me as a stupid awful patch to open the service to Mac users and to give you a ton of not-so-useful info during the game. But it is too much CPU consuming, works in software only mode, no hardware acceleration from the video card and...how to get full screen on a secondary monitor (i.e. on my TV in the living room!)

    Next the whole story...
    At the beginning I get a really bad frame-rate, I thought it was my PC, an old but highly optimized Athlon 1600+, so I went back uninstalling Silverlight. Now I can watch 800k videos streamed from USA, with video redirected to my TV, great but...
    1. Widescreen broadcasts has non correct 16:9 ratio, so that players seams to be like dwarfs :-)
    2. 4:3 broadcasts are enveloped in a 16:9 video stream: this result in a large not funny black frame that converts a 37inches 4:3 TV into a 25 one!
    3. Audio sometimes goes away.
    4. They want me to have Silverlight installed to watch the 1.2Mb streams!

    Now I have fixed it using Firefox+MediaPlayerConnectivity plug-in+VLC, but these tricky ways are not for everyone!!!

    I hope that bugs around video formats and so on will be fixed like in the year before, but the Silverlight stuff...I would like not to upgrade my PC to support a stupid CPU consuming thing just because MLB.TV developers has no better ideas! (An optional child window...?)
    Silverlight, even with a powerful PC, is not the best way to play high bandwidth streams, does not use DirectVideo extentions that means no HW video optimization by the video card and, and for me, no TV output redirection from the PC to the TV in front of the coach!!!

    I can't figure out how a big organization, like MLB.TV should be, has decided to develop such a silly technical solution!!! I say silly because you can't expect every one has a super-CPU on his PC... for what? To have dynamic video resizing? To have baserunners live prospect? First give me the quality, give me the possibility to handle the video to the screen I want and, if you want, give me the possibility to have the other stuff, IF I WANT IT!
    I have seen a video interview with the developers that has brought that stupid Silverlight in mlb.com. They made them some questions, but they should have asked them: "why you have chosen such a poor performance optimized solution?" and then "do you think that the cost of the service is correctly covered by the performance of the service itself?" "Do you remember that the core service is video streaming?"

    MLB.com did a great job, putting live baseball on internet, but now things are going to a Microsoft-like direction: put a lot of things on the screen to make you say "WOW!", but requiring a monster PC!
    Second thing, I'm not sure this Silverlight environment are covering expectations: a lot of users have my problems of low frame rate, even with powerful PCs or Macs!
    I hope for a solution of that problems, to bring this service to a better performance. A lot of baseball enthusiasts around the globe has no other way to watch MLB baseball!!!

    Thank you for your time!

  • I used to subscribe to the MLB Audio feed and was considering upgrading to the MLB.TV service. But I won't use a Microsoft product. Way to go, MLB. You just lost another customer.

  • Hi,

    I was buzzing around the net looking for the answer to my issue with MLB.COM and the Silverlight Plug-in. I have a Samsung monitor attached to a Dell laptop. The monitor's resolution is set to its max resolution, 1440 x 900. The Silverlight player has three zoom settings. The picuture looks awesome on the two smaller settings, but when I go to full screen it really looks awful (fuzzy). Is there anything I can do to tweak my computer and/or monitor configs to sharpen the picture? Or is it MLB.COM that would have to improve the quality? Thanks in advance for your expert advice.

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