Content processing for personal over-the-top network video recorder

A method for processing content to support network personal video recorder functions, comprising:

• continually performing the steps of (i) acquiring real-time streaming source content containing a program, (ii) transcoding the acquired source content into distinct encodings to create respective content streams, and (iii) segmenting the content streams into segments and uploading the segments to one or more content delivery networks (CDNs) for retrieval and use in rendering the program at a media player;
• generating manifests for the program and continually updating the manifests and uploading the updated manifests to the CDNs as the segments are uploaded to the CDNs, the manifests including a master manifest and set of network-personal-video-recorder (npvr) manifests for respective ones of the encodings, the master manifest including references to the set of npvr manifests to enable selection from among the encodings in rendering the program at the media player;
• and
• detecting a program boundary of the program in the source content, and in response:
• completing a current set of npvr manifests in current directories of the CDNs;
• creating new directories in the CDNs and starting a new set of npvr manifests in the new directories;
• and
• uploading subsequent segments and npvr manifest updates to the new directories.