Method of recording, in a mass memory of an electronic device, at least one multimedia content
AssigneeSagemcom Broadband SAS
InventorsDidier Sagot, Jérôme Berger
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Abstract
Method of recording a multimedia content broadcast streamwise, comprising the following steps: initialize a current throughput of recording of the stream in a mass memory; acquire a current portion of the multimedia content at the current recording throughput, and store it temporarily in the buffer memory; evaluate a rate of fill of the buffer memory; if the fill rate is greater than a predetermined high threshold of fill, decrease the current recording throughput; if the fill rate is less than or equal to a predetermined low threshold, increase the current recording throughput.
Claims16
A recording method for recording, in a mass memory of electronic equipment, at least one multimedia content streamed by at least one stream, the multimedia content being stored temporarily in a buffer memory of the electronic equipment prior to being recorded in the mass memory, the recording method comprising the steps of:
- initializing a current recording rate for the stream in the mass memory, the current recording rate being a current rate of access to the mass memory;
- acquiring a current portion of the multimedia content at the current recording rate, and storing it temporarily in the buffer memory;
- evaluating an occupancy fraction for the buffer memory, the occupancy fraction being a fraction of the buffer memory being occupied;
- if the occupancy fraction of the buffer memory is greater than a predetermined high occupancy threshold, decreasing the current recording rate;
- if the occupancy fraction of the buffer memory is less than or equal to a predetermined low occupancy threshold, increasing the current recording rate.
A recording method for recording, in a mass memory of electronic equipment, at least one multimedia content streamed by at least one stream, the multimedia content being stored temporarily in a buffer memory of the electronic equipment prior to being recorded in the mass memory, the recording method comprising the steps of:
- initializing a current recording rate for the stream in the mass memory;
- acquiring a current portion of the multimedia content at the current recording rate, and storing it temporarily in the buffer memory;
- evaluating an occupancy fraction for the buffer memory;
- if the occupancy fraction of the buffer memory is greater than a predetermined high occupancy threshold, decreasing the current recording rate;
- if the occupancy fraction of the buffer memory is less than or equal to a predetermined low occupancy threshold, increasing the current recording rate, wherein
- the recording method is performed to record a first multimedia content streamed as a first stream and at least one second multimedia content streamed as a second stream, the recording method further comprising the step of:
- defining a high priority stream and a low priority stream from among the first stream and the second stream,
- if the occupancy fraction is greater than the predetermined high occupancy threshold, decreasing the current recording rate initially of the low priority stream, and
- if the occupancy ratio is less than or equal to the predetermined low occupancy threshold, increasing the current recording rate initially of the high priority stream.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.