Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Michael Vidyadhar Kale

Saurav Sengupta

Gary Hertel

Kristopher Kosmatka

Kyle Sletmoe

Ramya Krishnamoorthy

William Shogren

Rory McCarthy

Benjamin Aldouby Schwartz

Meera Jindal

Ryan Farris

Akhil Ramachandran

Ahmet Gurcan

Abilash Ravikumar

Greg Kenneth Truax

Yongjun Wu

Alex Xiaoye Zhang

Kyle Bradley Koceski

Brian Enigma

Viriya Ratanasangpunth

Matthew Scharr

Dylan Kyle Abraham

Methods and apparatus are described for encoding and delivering secondary content (e.g., advertisements) for insertion in primary content (e.g., live events, movies, and television shows). Secondary content is encoded such that the duration of any audio component of the secondary content is equal to or longer than the video component duration. When the secondary content is inserted, the overall duration of the inserted content is specified to be equal to the video component duration.

Encoding media content for playback compatibility

A media storage service may store a plurality of copies of a same media recording in cloud DVR, one copy specific to one of a plurality of clients. The client may interact directly with the media storage service based on path-based indexing techniques for playback of the media recording. The client may send a request, including a path of a manifest file associated with the copy specific to the client, to the media storage service. The manifest file may include information indicating respective paths of one or more segments of the copy. The media storage service may identify and return the manifest file to the client. The media storage service may further receive requests from the client to access the segments of the copy. The requests may include the respective paths, based on which the media storage service may retrieve the segments for the client to play.

Using path-based indexing to access media recordings stored in a media storage service

A content streaming system and methodology for facilitating the management of content streaming. A video packaging and origination service requests streaming content that is organized according to content segments. Individual content segments will be encoded according to a plurality of encoding profiles and generated by different encoders. The video packaging and origination service utilizes synchronization information provided to the encoders to select individual encoded content segments responsive to the request for streaming content.

Distributed multi-datacenter video packaging system

A media storage service may maintain an asset including information to indicate a specific media content and a specific number of replicas to be stored by the media storage service for the specific media content. The media storage service may receive content recording-related requests from a recording manager to define or update the specific number for the specific media content. The media storage service may receive one or more segments specific to the media content from an encoder. The media storage service may create and store the specific number of replicas, as indicated in the asset, for the media content.

Asset-level management of media recording in cloud DVR systems

A content streaming system and methodology for facilitating the management of content streaming. A video packaging and origination service receives streaming content that is organized according content segments. Individual content segments will be encoded according to a plurality of encoding profiles and received at different ingress nodes within video packaging and origination service. The video packaging and origination service receives requests for streaming content from requesting entities. Sets of encoded content segments are transmitted by egress nodes.

A content streaming system and methodology for facilitating the management of content streaming. A video packaging and origination service requests streaming content that is organized according to content segments. Individual content segments will be encoded according to a plurality of encoding profiles and received at different ingress nodes within video packaging and origination service. The video packaging and origination service utilizes deterministic data generated by the different ingress nodes to determine when receipt of individual content segments is complete.

The playback of a media file can be adjusted for portions where the content may be of less interest to a viewer. The audio content can be analyzed to locate portions of the media file that might be appropriate for compression, such as during periods of relative silence. Information for the beginning or end of such a period can be stored as compression cues associated with the media file. During an encoding of the file, the compression cues and associated time code data can be used to incorporate playback adjustment information in the media file. A player playing the media file can determine whether to adjust the playback based on this information, such as to increase a frame rate of the playback during periods of silence and return the frame rate to a standard rate for the media file at the end of those periods.

Content-based media compression

In an example, a processing device is provided. The processing device may be configured to determine whether to send a first version of a stream manifest corresponding to a received a selection of one of a plurality of stream variants of a video content asset. The processing device may be configured to, in response to determining to not send the first version, send a second different version of the stream manifest. In an example, the first version includes only a subset of a plurality of entries included in the second version and/or a bootstrap current media time that is different than an actual current media time.

Start-over in adaptive streaming

A content streaming system and methodology for facilitating the management of content streaming. A video packaging and origination service receives streaming content that is organized according to content segments. Individual content segments will be encoded according to a plurality of encoding profiles and received at different ingress nodes within video packaging and origination service. The video packaging and origination service receives requests for streaming content from requesting entities. Sets of encoded content segments are transmitted by egress nodes.

A content streaming system and methodology for facilitating the management of content streaming. A video packaging and origination service requests streaming content that is organized according to content segments. Individual content segments will be encoded according to a plurality of encoding profiles and generated by different encoders. The video packaging and origination service utilizes synchronization information provided to the encoders to receive redundant encoded content segments responsive to the request for streaming content. The video packaging and origination service can process the received redundant streams.

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Michael Vidyadhar Kale