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I mentioned this while trying to find a feed for the weekend games, and I'm looking for some ideas...

Going to texassports.com or texassports.tv I found the links to the games, but couldn't get a feed (no video, no audio). That's been true for a long while., so I'd pretty much given up trying to use it.

I thought perhaps it was my router/firewall doing it... BUT it turned out that one computer at home actually got the feed - my laptop. None of the desktop PCs worked (some WinXP, some Win7, some Linux), all did the same thing - just black in the feed window. Here's where it gets strange. Yesterday I had to work with a network/radio installation crew and while doing that, decided to see if the office computers would let me watch the games. Same damn thing! The desktops had the black screen but my office laptop worked fine.

I thought maybe it was screen res or something, but couldn't find anything that worked on any desktop. Didn't seem to have anything to do with the video cards, either, although the home laptop had a strange thing, which was that the full-screen mode on the video showed a solid white screen, although the audio kept working and the windowed video was fine. Office laptop full-screen worked fine.

I've probably sent a dozen requests for help to the listed CBS (Texas Sports) places and never even gotten a response, let alone any assistance.

If someone's got a bright idea or three about this, I'd love to hear it... or if you're seeing the same problem, let me know and maybe we can find the common thread and fix it.
 
Very interesting. It seems that I have read some other posts with the same problem. I have had no problem at all on my Toshiba laptop. I have been watching games from Texas sports all season without a problem. I went to Texas sports and saw that there was a link to tv. The way I am doing it is going to the baseball schedule. A window comes up with the next event and there is a watch icon to click.
 
I have no problem going to The Link, none at all. In the parts of it where still pics are shown in the window, they show up just fine. It's only the AV feed "watch"... no error message, just... nothing - okay, not "nothing", but just a black screen. The "controls" on the bottom do show up, but nothing plays... on the desktops, that is. Both laptops work just fine. I'm gonna pry Miz Longtex's netbook loose and see if it works or not... will report back about that.

Weirdness.
 
I have had problems viewing the stream using FireFox, but got it working from Internet Explorer. Just wanted to throw that out there if some of you may be using alternate browsers.
 
I was able to watch from my laptop at home the last few innings last night. Couldn't watch the goodnes this afternoon till after it was already in the books.
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A quick update, and thank-you for the responses...

I haven't had a chance to test Miz Longtex's netbook on texassports.com yet, but all the other video works on it. Once there's something live again, I'll give it a shot.

There's no difference for me between foxfirefox and IE - both either work or don't depending on the computer - laptops yes, desktops no. OS makes no difference there, although some stuff such as ESPN3 doesn't play on Linux (dunno about Macs or iGadgets - anybody else know?) although it (ESPN3) plays fine on multiple Win XX OS boxes.

I haven't looked, but I'm guessing it's going to be the same with other CBSSports sites - I think I saw a link to one for Baylor, so prolly there are multiples.

Anyway, FWIW, there it is... so far.
 
I was able to watch through explorer on my Toshiba notebook last weekend. I tried to watch using Ipad 2 but it would not support the flash player that was needed. I downloaded skyfire which is supposed to support flash and it still didn't work. They are currently researching the problem there. I then tried to watch on TV using AppleTv and it had same problem......it just doesn't support flash. I wish Texassports would use something other than flash.
 
For what it's worth, when I was trying to view the baseball feed with Firefox (version 3 something), I would just get a black box and no audio or video. However, IE8 worked fine.

This is on Win7 x64 OS. I am current on Flash.
 
Had the same problem and then I looked at my ABP and it had Texassports.TV blocked.

So, Once i disabled it I was able to watch it on my computer.

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I was hoping to be on the lake watching the game on my laptop today. Is there a stream when the game is on ESPN?
Besides ESPN3, I don't get that with my aircard.
 
You might check justin dot tv - it's kinda thinned out on re-streamers, but it's possible, and particularly when games ARE on "mainstream" channels. You can also go to http colon // espn.go.com/espn3 and logon with any att dot com dot net user's id - I've done it when visiting at friends with TW Cable, gets you right in it.
 
I finally found the solution to the bizarro white-out problem when trying to watch full-screen...

God nose why, but turning off (actually, turning down, not necessarily off) hardware acceleration in the display properties did the trick.

Ya never know when these strange things are software and when they're hardware (or combinations)...

Any old way, there it is - hope it helps someone sometime somewhere.
 
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