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Saturday
Mar212009

More on March Madness Online

correction:  It was pointed out to me I attributed incorrectly  - actually it was Alex Zambelli highlighting the specs used, Ben was quoting him - sorry Alex!

Microsoft's Ben Waggoner has posted some more details about March Madness Online Video and the Silverlight player powering it, including the resolutions and data rates used:












































Total Bitrate
(kbps)


Video Bitrate
(kbps)


Audio Bitrate
(kbps)


Video Width



Video Height



Pixel Aspect Ratio



1500



1450



48



784



432



1:1



1000



950



48



512



384



4:3



650



615



32



368



272



4:3



350



315



32



240



176



4:3



Video codec used is VC-1 Advanced Profile. Audio codec used is WMA Professional at 44.1 kHz 16-bit stereo.

All March Madness games are being encoded by MLB.com’s encoding facilities using Inlet Spinnaker 7000 encoders. The Spinnakers were configured based on my own recommendations in order to provide maximum quality at all bitrates.

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