Techniques for multimedia playback
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorRavish Karki Narayan
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Abstract
Various embodiments are generally directed to an apparatus, method and other techniques for receiving multimedia information at a computing device and receiving one or more of power information and bandwidth information for the computing device. In various embodiments, video processing may be disabled for the computing device when the power information is below a power threshold or bandwidth information is below a bandwidth threshold and an audio only portion of multimedia information may be sent to one or more output devices coupled to the computing device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Claims18
An apparatus, comprising:
- a memory located at a computing device;
- a processing circuit coupled to the memory;
- a communication interface coupled to the memory and the processing circuit to receive multimedia information from a service provider;
- and
- a multimedia management module to:
- receive one or more of power information and bandwidth information:
- disable video processing operations at the computing device when the power information is below a power threshold or the bandwidth information is below a bandwidth threshold;
- send an audio only portion of the multimedia information to one or more output devices coupled with the computing device;
- receive a graphical advertisement for display during the audio only mode operation;
- enable video processing operations at the computing device for display of the graphical advertisement;
- send the graphical advertisement to a display coupled with the computing device;
- and
- disable video processing operations after the graphical advertisement was sent.
A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- receiving multimedia information from a service provider at a computing device;
- receiving one or more of power information and bandwidth information for the computing device;
- disabling video processing for the computing device when the power information is below a power threshold or bandwidth information is below a bandwidth threshold;
- and
- sending an audio only portion of the multimedia information to one or more output devices coupled to the computing device;
- receiving a graphical advertisement for display during the audio only mode operation;
- enabling video processing operations at the computing device for display of the graphical advertisement;
- sending the graphical advertisement to a display coupled with the computing device;
- and
- disabling video processing operations after sending the graphical advertisement.
An article comprising a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing a plurality of instructions that when executed enable a processing circuit to:
- receive multimedia information from a service provider at a computing device;
- receive one or more of power information and bandwidth information for the computing device;
- disable video processing for the computing device when the power information is below a power threshold or the bandwidth information is below a bandwidth threshold;
- and
- send an audio only portion of the multimedia information to one or more output devices coupled to the computing device once video processing is disabled;
- receive a graphical advertisement for display during the audio only mode operation;
- enable video processing operations at the computing device for display of the graphical advertisement;
- send the graphical advertisement to a display coupled with the computing device;
- and
- disable video processing operations after the graphical advertisement was sent.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.