Arris Enterprises LLC

Beena Devadathan

William P Franks

Rajesh Rao

Kaliraj Kalaichelvan

Mark Steven Schmidt

The disclosure relates to a methods and apparatus to perform improved trickplay for higher speeds and high-latency networks. In one aspect, the method comprises receiving, in a processor, data comprising a video or audiovisual signal formatted in a sequence of chunks downloaded sequentially over a communications medium. When the processor receives a command to display the data at a trickplay speed that is higher than normal speed, the processor can begin to skip a number of chunks before downloading a next chunk in the sequence of chunks, decoding, and displaying the decoded chunk. The number of skipped chunks between each downloaded chunk may be a preset number and/or may be dynamically determined in the event that a downloaded chunk is skipped because it is not downloaded in time or if the expected download time of the next chunk is longer than the display time of the current chunk.

Method and apparatus for presentation of video content

A method, system, and computer program product for trick play using partial video file chunks includes a processor to retrieve the selected video file from an HLS server, the video file having a plurality of video chunks, and each one of the video chunks beginning with an I-frame. The processor may determine an average size of the plurality of I-frames. The average I-frame size may be based on a bitrate speed of the video file. The processor may retrieve a portion equal to the average I-frame size of from the beginning of each one of the plurality of chunks of the video. The processor may receive a begin trick play request of the selected video and initiate trick play of the selected video. The trick play of the video includes displaying each portion of each one of the plurality of chunks of the video.

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