Merging multicast abr and unicast abr with progressive download abr in a customer premises device within the same video delivery pipe

A method of synchronizing multicast adaptive bitrate (MABR) delivery of a requested channel and progressive download adaptive bitrate (ABR) delivery of the requested channel from a premises gateway to user devices, the method comprising:

• responsive to determining that a requested video session is for MABR content on a requested channel, the premises gateway receiving a location of a content delivery network (CDN) from a back office and requesting a video session manifest for the requested channel from the CDN;
• if the client is a progressive download client, delivering a copy of the video session manifest to the progressive download ABR client whereby the progressive download ABR client can begin pulling video segments;
• if the client is not a progressive download client and if the requested channel is not already being watched at a premises served by the premises gateway, the premises gateway receiving the video session manifest for the requested channel and joining an MABR multicast for the requested channel, wherein the video session manifest and the MABR multicast both access content from a single multicast segmenter;
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• if the client is not a progressive download client, delivering a combined segmented stream from the MABR multicast for the requested channel to the client.