Digital channel integration system

A system for automatically providing navigation links to appropriate points within streaming video associated with a television program, the system comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to:
• receive, at a digital channel integration system, production content metadata of the television program from a production system used to produce the television program;
• parse the production content metadata to obtain segment data for a plurality of segments of the television program, wherein the segment data for each segment includes a segment identifier, at least one time code, and a story slug indicating an identifier for a story associated with each of the plurality of segments;
• group, based on the time codes and the story slugs, adjacent segments having matching story slugs into one or more stories;
• encoding, by an encoding system, a raw video associated with the television program into a video stream suitable for transmission over a computer network to a client device;
• receive, during playback of the video stream on the client device, real-time status information that includes an identifier of a playing segment;
• determine, based on the segment data and the real-time status information, a story associated with the playing segment;
• determine that the playing segment corresponds to a beginning of a new story having a different story slug than a previously played segment immediately before the playing segment;
• responsive to determining that the playing segment corresponds to the beginning of the new story, transmit information to prompt the encoding system to insert a cue point marker for the story in the video stream;
• and
• store an indicator for the cue point marker for the story in association with the segment data.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions for automatically providing navigation links to appropriate points within streaming video associated with a television program, the instructions when executed by the processor causing the processor to:

• receive, at a digital channel integration system, production content metadata of the television program from a production system used to produce the television program;
• parse the production content metadata to obtain segment data for a plurality of segments of the television program, wherein the segment data for each segment includes a segment identifier, at least one time code, and a story slug indicating an identifier for a story associated with each of the plurality of segments;
• group, based on the time codes and the story slugs, adjacent segments having matching story slugs into one or more stories;
• encoding, by an encoding system, a raw video associated with the television program into a video stream suitable for transmission over a computer network to a client device;
• receive, during playback of the video stream on the client device, real-time status information that includes an identifier of a playing segment;
• determine, based on the segment data and the real-time status information, a story associated with the playing segment;
• determine that the playing segment corresponds to a beginning of a new story having a different story slug than a previously played segment immediately before the playing segment;
• responsive to determining that the playing segment corresponds to the beginning of the new story, transmit information to prompt the encoding system to insert a cue point marker for the story in the video stream;
• and
• store an indicator for the cue point marker for the story in association with the segment data.