Systems, methods, and media for delivery of content

A method for delivery of content, the method comprising:

• receiving, at a media encoder, a fragment of a piece of media content;
• encoding, at the media encoder, the received fragment to generate one or more encodings of the fragment;
• maintaining, using a playback server, a listing of a pool of content delivery networks that can be used to stream the piece of media content to a user equipment device, wherein the listing is determined based upon a plurality of quality of service metrics associated with the pool of content delivery networks;
• receiving, at the playback server, a request to stream the piece of media content, the request being received from the user equipment device;
• in response to the request to stream the piece of media content, determining, from the listing of the pool of content delivery networks that can be used to stream the piece of media content to the user device, a listing of a pool of content delivery networks having the best quality of service metrics;
• providing, using the playback server, the determined listing of the pool of content delivery networks to the media encoder;
• providing, using the media encoder encodings of the fragment to the pool of one or more content delivery networks;
• determining, using the playback server, a location of the user equipment device;
• determining, using the playback server, whether a predetermined condition is satisfied;
• responsive to determining that the predetermined condition is not satisfied, adding, using the playback server, an additional content delivery network to the pool of one or more content delivery networks that can be used to stream the piece of media content;
• providing, using the playback server, the media encoder with an identifier of the additional content delivery network;
• configure the media encoder, using the playback server and the identifier of the additional content delivery network, to provide encodings of subsequently received fragments of the piece of media content to the additional content delivery network;
• and
• providing the encodings of the subsequently received fragments to the user equipment device from the additional content delivery network.

A system for live streaming content, the system comprising:

• a media encoder configured to:
• receive a fragment of a piece of media content;
• encode the received fragment to generate one or more encodings of the fragment;
• and
• provide encodings of the fragment to a pool of one or more content delivery networks;
• a playback server configured to:
• receive a request to stream the piece of media content, the request being received from a user equipment device;
• determine a location of the user equipment device;
• determine whether a predetermined condition is satisfied;
• responsive to determining that the predetermined condition is not satisfied, add an additional content delivery network to the pool of one or more content delivery networks that can be used to stream the piece of media content;
• provide the media encoder with an identifier of the additional content delivery network;
• and
• using the identifier of the additional content delivery network to configure the media encoder to provide encodings of subsequently received fragments of the piece of media content to the additional content delivery network;
• and
• a plurality of content delivery networks comprising the additional content delivery network, and configured to provide the encodings of the subsequently received fragments to the user equipment device from the additional content delivery network.