Author Topic: Unable to View Videos on ESPN360 (Read 2221 times)

Jim Reinhard · « **on:** July 08, 2006, 02:30:20 PM »

ESPN360.com is a great site for sports info and live sport programming on the computer. Unfortunately, ESPN doesn't

seem to offer much support for Mac. They recommend downloading the latest version of Windows Media Player and Adobe's Flash, which I have done. They say live video is presented in Windows streaming format. Since I am unable to watch today's live soccer broadcast between Germany and Portugal, I thought I'd ask if anyone in this forum has been able to get ESPN360 video on their Mac. If so, what does it take? I'd sure like to be able to use this new site to the fullest but like so many other things designed for Windows this isn't working for me on my iBook G4. Any advice will be gladly accepted. Thanks.

kelly · « **Reply #1 on:** July 08, 2006, 03:03:51 PM »

It's on ESPN TV right now. Can't get to it eh?

Mess of Tips problems here.

http://worldcup.blogs.nytimes.com/?p=208

http://www.macfixitforums.com/printthread....amp;type=thread

Jim Reinhard · « **Reply #2 on:** July 08, 2006, 03:15:03 PM »

QUOTE(kelly @ Jul 8 2006, 08:03 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

It's on ESPN TV right now. Can't get to it eh?

Mess of Tips problems here.

http://worldcup.blogs.nytimes.com/?p=208

http://www.macfixitforums.com/printthread....amp;type=thread

Thanks. I realize it's being broadcast. I'm talking about trying to get the live video to work on ESPN360. I get a message about Playlist not being recognized.

RobW · « **Reply #3 on:** July 08, 2006, 04:35:34 PM »

I went there when I saw your post. I immediately noticed a message which indicated that things wouldn't work if you had pop-ups blocked--which I do with Firefox. I fired up Netscape, which I use for other sites when I need to allow pop-ups. It's working fine! I'm using OSX.3.9 on my eMac. Maybe try another browser--and make sure you allow pop-ups??

D76 · « **Reply #4 on:** July 08, 2006, 05:45:14 PM »

EDIT: Ignore, please.

swhitset · « **Reply #5 on:** July 09, 2006, 12:48:16 AM »

I know this isn't much help... but It is playing fine for me. I am using a Macbook Pro. I do have the latest flash installed, however, I am also running a Beta version of "Flip4 Mac WMV" This is a Beta Universal Binary that I don't think is publicly available yet. It may be that the latest Mac version of Windows Media Player will not work even though Flip4Mac does. I have run into this in the past. All I can say is try Flip4Mac if you have a PPC mac. If you have an Intel Mac, you can force Safari and Flip4Mac to run in Rosetta via the get info window.

If you can find the Beta version somewhere it is newer and has been working great for me.

Steve

sew · « **Reply #6 on:** July 09, 2006, 01:28:15 AM »

You can get Flip4Mac here ( http://www.flip4mac.com/ )

RobW · « **Reply #7 on:** July 09, 2006, 06:34:55 AM »

I'm NOT using Flip4Mac and it worked fine for me. I'm not sure which version of Windows Media Player I have.

kelly · « **Reply #8 on:** July 12, 2006, 07:03:21 AM »

So I went to this.

http://broadband.espn.go.com/ivp/splash

Said I needed a version of Flash Player.

I let it install Flash Player 9.

Everything worked fine.

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