Sling Media Pvt. Ltd.

Arunoday Thammineni

Varunkumar B Tripathi

Yatish J Naik Raikar

Kiran Chittella

Jayaprakash Narayanan Ramaraj

Sushant Sudhir Kulkarni

Rueju Namath

Bharani Gopinath

Sushant Sudhir Kulkami

Seek and other trick play functions can be improved in placeshifting and similarly live-encoded video streams. Thumbnail images are derived from I-frames (or similar key frames) of the source video stream rather than from the live-encoded stream. The thumbnail images are tagged to indicate a presentation time stamp (PTS) or similar identification of the source video frame that was used to create the thumbnail image. The tagged thumbnails are provided to the media player, which renders the images to indicate different portions of the video stream as the viewer scans or performs other functions. When the viewer selects to skip to a different part of the video stream, the PTS or similar identifier associated with the presented thumbnail image is sent to the placeshifting encoder to identify the appropriate starting point to resume live encoding.

Seek with thumbnail generation and display during placeshifting session

A content receiver and a method for controlling the same are provided. The content receiver, for example, may include, but is not limited to, a communication system configured to receive video content comprising a plurality of video frames from a content source, and a video analyzer configured to determine when compression of the video content is causing blockiness in one or more of the plurality of video frames, and trigger at least one content receiver response when the compression of the video content is causing blockiness in one or more of the plurality of video frames.

Video analyzer

Media content is downloaded from a remote source. A request is received from a client device for sideloading of the media content. Sideloading of the media content to the client device is begun when the downloading has begun and the request has been received.

Management of a sideloaded content

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Bengaluru, India

Arunoday Thammineni