Inzerillo led me across the street to look at the massive amount of hardware powering his operation’s encoding and storage systems. Those video feeds are encoded into 12 different bit rates and formats (all using the H.264 video codec). It’s a process that begins in the network operations center, which is tied in to every major-league stadium and all of the team broadcasters. (It’s since been moved to a smaller room on the opposite side of the big video wall, dubbed the “replay operations center.”)įans watching a game on their iPad, Apple TV, Roku player, or any other device might not realize just what’s involved in getting that video stream to their device. It’s the media hub of baseball, so much so that when league officials decided to institute limited in-game instant-replay review of certain calls, they set up the system inside this very room. Once all 30 clubs are playing on the same day, the control room will be processing more than two-dozen high-definition video feeds. I visited MLBAM during Spring Training, and things were relatively quiet-but beginning with Thursday’s Opening Day the place will become a hive of activity. There’s a massive network infrastructure that allows high-definition video from dozens of sources to flow in, huge racks of servers to encode video in a dozen different formats, a sea of iMacs that are used to add pitch-by-pitch metadata to the party, and teams of developers to create apps on platforms as disparate as iOS, Flash, PlayStation 3, and even the LG TV set I have in my living room. Nestled in New York City’s funky Chelsea Market (rather than the league’s more staid offices uptown), this is an operation with the feel of a high-tech startup.
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