Method of home media server control

A method of providing home media server content management and processing, comprising:

• selecting, identifying, and storing by a media producer, of multi-media content as files to a storage medium within an editing platform to form files of the multi-media content;
• generating, by the media producer using an editing software program, a set of instructions and data for assembly of an edited program, said edited program including specified segments from the files of the multi-media content;
• assembling the specified segments using the set of instructions and data to form the edited program;
• storing the edited program on the editing platform;
• analyzing, using a software program, endpoint frames of each segment used in the assembly of the edited program, said analysis resulting in analysis data stored on the editing platform;
• distributing said files of the multi-media content, the set of instructions, the data, and the analysis data to a home media server;
• emulating assembly of the edited program by said home media server using the files of the multi-media content, the set of instructions, the data, the analysis data, and a home media server editing program, said assembled edited program being stored in the home media server.

A program code storage device, comprising:

• a machine-readable storage medium;
• and
• machine-readable code, stored on the machine-readable storage medium, having instructions to
• select, identify, and store multi-media content as files to a storage medium within a editing platform,
• generate a set of instructions and data for assembly of a edited program, said edited program including specified segments from the files of the multi-media content,
• assemble the specified segments using the set of instructions and the data to form the edited program;
• view and store the edited program on the editing platform,
• analyze endpoint frames of each segment used in the assembly of the edited program,
• said analysis resulting in analysis data stored on the editing platform,
• distribute said files of the multi-media content, the set of instructions, the data, and the analysis data to a home media server, and
• cause the home media server to emulate assembly of the edited program by using the files of the multi-media content, the set of instructions, the data, the analysis data, and a home media server editing program.

A program code storage device, comprising:

• a machine-readable storage medium;
• and
• machine-readable code, stored on the machine-readable storage medium, having instructions to
• receive from a media producer files of multi-media content, a set of instructions, data, analysis data, and
• emulate assembly of an edited program using the files of the multi-media content, the set of instructions, the data, the analysis data, and a home media server editing program, said assembled edited program viewed real-time and stored in the home media server.