Method To Insert Program Boundaries In Linear Video For Adaptive Bitrate Streaming

A machine-readable storage medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor of a media player, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:

• requesting media content for display by the media player;
• receiving a manifest file for an adaptive bitrate media stream of the media content;
• measuring an available bandwidth for downloading data from a content delivery network;
• requesting a fragment of the media content identified by a uniform resource identifier in the manifest file based on the available bandwidth;
• receiving the fragment from the content delivery network;
• detecting a program change indicator for the fragment in the manifest file;
• and
• displaying the fragment of the media content.

A method, comprising:

• detecting, by a system comprising a processor, a program boundary in an input linear media stream;
• generating, by the system, a manifest file comprising metadata that identifies uniform resource identifiers for downloading chunks of a transcoded media output stream, wherein chunks are fragments of the transcoded media output stream, wherein the transcoded media output stream comprises a bitrate that is generated from the input linear media stream, and wherein each chunk comprises a fixed display time;
• inserting, by the system, a program change indicator into the manifest file that identifies the program boundary in a chunk;
• and
• sending, by the system, the manifest file to a media player.