Playback device and playback method for multimedia file
AssigneeMStar Semiconductor, Inc.
InventorsHsiao-Shu Hsiung, Tsung-Hsun Tsai
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Abstract
A playback device for a multimedia file is provided. The playback device is applied to a player that switches a channel according to a control signal. The playback device for a multimedia file includes: a processing unit, configured to access one of a plurality of sets of playlist link information from a look-up table according to the control signal, and to obtain a playlist according to the selected playlist link information; a multimedia content identification unit, configured to access the multimedia file according to contents of the playlist; and an image processing unit, configured to process the multimedia file and to transmit the processed multimedia file to a display module for display.
Claims20
A playback method, applied to a player that switches a channel according to a control signal, the playback method comprising:
- selecting one of a plurality sets of playlist link information from a look-up table (LUT) according to the control signal;
- obtaining a corresponding playlist according to the selected set of playlist link information;
- accessing a multimedia file according to contents of the playlist;
- and
- playing the multimedia file.
A playback device, applied to a player that switches a channel according to a control signal, the playback device comprising:
- a processing unit, configured to select one of a plurality sets of playlist link information from an LUT according to the control signal, and to obtain a playlist according to the selected playlist link information;
- a multimedia content identification unit, configured to access a multimedia file according to contents of the playlist;
- and
- an image processing unit, configured to process the multimedia file and to transmit the processed multimedia file to a display module for display.
A playback method, applied to a player that switches a channel according to a control signal, the playback method comprising:
- selecting a target linear multimedia file from a plurality of linear multimedia files, the linear multimedia files correspondingly to respective channel numbers;
- processing and playing the target linear multimedia file;
- obtaining a playlist according to the control signal, the playlist recording a plurality of URLs of a plurality of non-linear multimedia files;
- accessing one of the non-linear multimedia files according to one of the URLs;
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- processing and playing the accessed non-linear multimedia file.
The playback method according to claim 18, the player generating channel information including a plurality of channel numbers according to the linear multimedia files, the playback method further comprising:
- generating a LUT according to the channel information;
- wherein, the LUT utilizes the channel numbers as indices, and the step of obtaining the playlist according to the control signal obtains the playlist by referring to the LUT.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.