Change bit rate at medium high rate encoding in Windows Media Player.

This setting enables you to set the bit rate (Kbps) of your own choice in Windows Media Player 10 and above when the encoding is done at medium high rate.

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Description:
The media player encoder compresses the content, which may be audio or video, into a format, which can easily be viewed over the internet or played back or downloaded to computer. For encoding, you can pick up vcr, video camera or screen from the desktop. The file types like avi and wav are most commonly used. The destination may be cd, dvd or internet with default settings. With windows media player 10 and above you can change the existing bit rate encoding quality. The bit rate (kbps) of the media player can be set up between 32 kbps and 320 kbps. 128 is the-most widely used and 192 offers near-cd quality while 320 offer almost cd identical quality. However, the other bit rate values offered are 32, 40, 48, 56, 64, 80, 96, 112, 128, 160, 192, 224, 256 or 320. The default value is 192 kbps for medium high rate encoding but you can change it to 256 kbps. For this, go to start > run menu, enter regedit and navigate to the registry path listed below. If any of the subkeys \settings\mp3encoding does not exist, create it as explained below. Now, create a dword value mediumhighrate and enter the encoding rate (for eg. 256000) with base decimal. Then, create another dword value mediumhighratesample to enter the frequency at which the music is recorded (for eg. 48000) with base decimal. The changes take effect after a restart or logoff. When editing the registry it is highly recommended to run a quick scan for optimization, you can test your system now for free.