Content delivery edge storage optimized media delivery to adaptive bitrate (abr) streaming clients

A method for providing adaptive bit-rate (ABR) streaming to a media client, comprising:

• receiving a request, from the media client, to obtain a segment of media content at an adaptive bitrate (ABR) representation of a plurality of ABR representations;
• receiving a set of two or more layers of a scalable coded representation corresponding to the requested segment of media content at the requested ABR representation and decoding the set of two or more layers by a transcoding unit to provide a set of media frames and scalable stream information for the segment;
• receiving a hint stream corresponding to the requested segment of media content at the requested ABR representation and the scalable stream information for the segment, and decoding the hint stream by the transcoding unit to provide transcoding hints for the segment;
• and
• re-encoding the set of media frames using the transcoding hints to provide an encoded bit stream, corresponding to the requested segment of media content at the requested ABR representation by the transcoding unit for packaging and eventual delivery to the media client.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having instructions that, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to:

• receive a request, from a media client, to obtain a segment of media content at an adaptive bitrate (ABR) representation of a plurality of ABR representations;
• receive a set of two or more layers of a scalable coded representation corresponding to the requested segment of media content at the requested ABR representation and decode the set of two or more layers by a transcoding unit to provide a set of media frames and scalable stream information for the segment;
• receive a hint stream corresponding to the requested segment of media content at the requested ABR representation and the scalable stream information for the segment, and decode the hint stream by the transcoding unit to provide transcoding hints for the segment;
• and
• re-encode the set of media frames using the transcoding hints to provide an encoded bit stream, corresponding to the requested segment of media content at the requested ABR representation by the transcoding unit for packaging and eventual delivery to the media client.