Metadata recordation and navigation for stitched content

An apparatus comprising one or more modules configured to:

• receive a target presentation time stamp;
• identify a slot entry of a slot table, the slot entry having a presentation time stamp range within which the target presentation time stamp falls;
• among a first index of the identified slot entry and the last index of the identified slot entry, identify the index that is associated with a presentation time stamp value that is nearest to the target presentation time stamp;
• based on the value of the target presentation time stamp relative to the value of the presentation time stamp associated with the identified index, determine a direction for carrying out a search of one or more indexes of the slot entry;
• compare the target presentation time stamp to one or more presentation time stamps associated with one or more indexes of the identified slot entry starting with the identified index and proceeding sequentially from the identified index in the determined direction until an index having a presentation time stamp matching the target presentation time stamp is found;
• and
• identify the index having the presentation time stamp that matches the target presentation time stamp as a target index.

One or more non-transitory computer readable media having instructions operable to cause one or more processors to perform the operations comprising:

• receiving a target presentation time stamp;
• identifying a slot entry of a slot table, the slot entry having a presentation time stamp range within which the target presentation time stamp falls;
• among a first index of the identified slot entry and the last index of the identified slot entry, identifying the index that is associated with a presentation time stamp value that is nearest to the target presentation time stamp;
• based on the value of the target presentation time stamp relative to the value of the presentation time stamp associated with the identified index, determining a direction for carrying out a search of one or more indexes of the slot entry;
• comparing the target presentation time stamp to one or more presentation time stamps associated with one or more indexes of the identified slot entry starting with the identified index and proceeding sequentially from the identified index in the determined direction until an index having a presentation time stamp matching the target presentation time stamp is found;
• and
• identifying the index having the presentation time stamp that matches the target presentation time stamp as a target index.