A System and Methods Thereof for Auto-playing Video Content on Mobile Devices

A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon instructions for causing one or more processing units to execute a computer-implemented method for auto-playing a video content item in a web-page of a mobile device, wherein the video content item comprises a plurality of frames, the method comprises executing on a processor the steps of:

• receiving a request to auto-play the video content item in the web-page displayed on the mobile device;
• fetching the video content item and respective metadata;
• parsing the video content item into a plurality of files, wherein each of the plurality of files comprises a subset portion of the frames of the video content item, wherein the subset portion of the plurality of frames in each file of the plurality of files is encoded to be decoded in parallel by a plurality of threads on the mobile device;
• and,
• sending the plurality of files for decoding by the mobile device to result in display of the video content item on the mobile device.

A mobile device for auto-playing a video content item in a web-page, wherein the video content item comprises a plurality of frames, the mobile device comprising:

• a display unit;
• a processing unit;
• and
• a memory coupled to the processing unit, the memory contains therein instructions that when executed by the processing unit configures the mobile device to:
• fetch the video content as a plurality of files, wherein each of the plurality of files comprises a subset portion of the plurality of frames of the video content item;
• decode in parallel the plurality of files, using multiple threads, to a set of frames;
• generate a display schedule for displaying the set of frames on the display unit;
• draw the set of frames on a draw area respective of the at least one video content item;
• and
• auto-play the set of frames respective of the display schedule.