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US 2016/0240205 A1Published application
Audio splitting with codec-enforced frame sizes
AssigneeEchoStar Technologies L.L.C.
InventorCalvin Ryan Owen
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for splitting the audio of media content into separate content files without introducing boundary artifacts is described.
Claims20
A method, implemented by a computing system to stream media content including audio and video, the method comprising:
- receiving, by the computing system, a plurality of content files, wherein each of the plurality of content files comprises an encoded portion of the video encoded according to a frame rate and having a fixed-time duration and an encoded portion of the audio encoded according to a codec-enforced frame size and having a plurality of full audio frames having the codec-enforced frame size, wherein a duration of the encoded portion of the audio of one or more of the plurality of content files is greater than or less than the fixed-time duration;
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- staging, by the computing system, the encoded portion of the audio of the plurality of content files for presentation as a continuous stream.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instruction thereon when executed by a computing device cause the computing device to perform a method, comprising:
- receiving a plurality of content files corresponding to media content including audio and video, wherein each of the plurality of content files comprises an encoded portion of the video encoded according to a frame rate and having a fixed-time duration and an encoded portion of the audio encoded according to a codec-enforced frame size and having a plurality of full audio frames having the codec-enforced frame size, wherein a duration of the encoded portion of the audio of one or more of the plurality of content files is greater than or less than the fixed-time duration;
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- staging the encoded portion of the audio of the plurality of content files for presentation as a continuous stream.
A computing device comprising:
- a decoder;
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- a media player coupled to a content delivery network to request a plurality of content files corresponding to media content including audio and video from the content delivery network, receive the plurality of content files from the content delivery network, and present the audio of the plurality of content files to the decoder as a continuous stream, wherein:
- each of the plurality of content files comprises an encoded portion of the video encoded according to a frame rate and having a fixed-time duration and an encoded portion of the audio encoded according to a codec-enforced frame size and having a plurality of full audio frames having the codec-enforced frame size;
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- a duration of the encoded portion of the audio of one or more of the plurality of content files is greater than or less than the fixed-time duration.
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