Monday, March 31, 2008 |
Tech: Gameday, Gameday Audio Both Break On Linux
Ah, spring.
Update: No surprises here:
Automatic flash installer detection does not work properly on Firefox / Mac versions 2.0.0.7 through 2.0.0.12. Updating the browser to 2.0.0.13 fixes the issue. Click here to update. We are investigating fixes on our end.In my experience, if Mac is busted, Linux will be too. And hardly anybody ever tests with Mac before launching products. You'd think these guys would, given their user base.
Update 2: Updating to Flash 9.0.115 doesn't make Gameday work any better (and certainly doesn't make it any smaller). Home page site loads for both Angels and Dodgers (Dodgers particularly so for some reason) are extremely bad.
Update 3: Apparently I had to wait 2-3 minutes for Gameday to finish loading. Good grief.
Update 4: It looks like they're pushing Silverlight now, which is likely causing a lot of the problems. Miguel de Icaza, a self-described hopeless romantic, somehow thinks Microsoft will love him back. He's a fool; Microsoft hates Linux. This year may be the beginning of the end for Gameday Audio (and everything else) working properly under Linux. I wonder how much money changed hands to make Silverlight the next-gen guts of MLBAM.
Update 5: Looks like Gameday 2006 (the last good, small version) no longer works with the new XML structure. (I mentioned this in today's DT gameday thread, but didn't say anything about it here.)
I tried Foxpaw's suggestion of disabling Adblock Plus, but this just allowed ads to be displayed while doing nothing about Gameday Audio.
Update 6: I'm not the only one having problems.
Update 7: There also appears to be some provisions for allowing users to choose the old Mediaplayer (see for instance this "unsupported" banner that never displays under Linux), but they don't work so far on Linux+Firefox.
Update 5/1: This is now working, and I suspect the reason is because MLBAM pulled the plug on certain maldesigns.
Labels: stupid ideas, tech
maybe site traffic is to blame... its been working in spring training...
gameday does work for me
I'm on a windows box, so Gameday is working, it's really is too tall, and I'm at 1024x768. That said, the information is generally better presented than v2007. They just need to ensmallen it a bit.
And yeah, v2006 is totally hosed.
(DXMachina)
i could not get that working on my work machine in spring training...
The page detected I didnt have SL installed, so it offered to play the stream the "old" way, through Windows Media Player...
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