More on March Madness Online
Saturday, March 21, 2009 at 3:30AM 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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