IssueTracker

When streaming a live game on MLB.TV (mlb.com/tv), the stream consistently hangs (spinning wheel) on the first commercial between each inning. There seems to be something different about the commercial format, which ChromeOS isn't handling. Note there have been times when MLB.TV does not seem to have these types of commercials (the commercials are in a more standard format?), and everything is fine. But at least since the start of the regular season, this has been a problem for every game which I have watched.

By clicking on the "live" button a number of times, the hang will eventually get resolved when the game's next inning starts, but you seem to have to click at least once when it's hung on the commercial, wait a while until you suspect the next inning has started, and then click again.

I enabled the Linux VM environment and installed the Debian version of the Chrome browser inside the VM, and everything works great in that environment; nothing hangs.

I'm running ChromeOS version 134.0.6998.130

A few other notes:

1: I typically use an Ad Blocker, but the problem exists whether I have the Ad Blocker enabled or disabled.

2: This is the 3rd season that I've subscribed to MLB.TV. There may have been similar issues sometimes the past 2 years, but I can't recall for sure; it definitely didn't happen all the time.

3: My Chromebook is a Brya platform. I have an older Chromebook (Lars platform) which I haven't booted for a long time, so I can experiment by booting it on whatever older version of the OS it's running, trying the streaming, and then let the OS update and trying it again, to see if this might have only started being a problem in a recent OS, and/or might just be an issue with Brya vs Lars.

4. I installed the Android MLB app on the Chromebook; everything works fine there, but this is probably introducing a lot more software changes as compared to using the browser from within the Linux VM.

5. To reproduce this, you'll need to sign up for an account on mlb.com, but there is at least one free game available almost every day, and so you only need to create an account rather than paying for a subscription.

Please let me know if I can try any other experiments to help resolve this.