Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Ravindra Ganti

Yongjun Wu

Lei Li

Gaurav Saxena

Parminder Singh

John F X Gaquin

Charles M Cordova

Nathaniel Stewart

Patrick Joseph Lewis

Mairo Pedrini

Kent Haakan Karlsson

Benjamin Raphael Forman

Nicholas Sidwell

Abhishek Kumar

Euan McLeod

Michael James Montgomery

Stephen Han

Abhishek Trivedi

John FX Gaquin

Ho Yin Ng

Saumil Patel

Avinash Kumar

Vitaly Panor

Nicholas Lovejoy

Shazia Khan

Joseph Michael Pavey

Joohoon Kim

Bobby Castleberry

Linear playout provides media content according to a schedule. Live events and video on demand (VOD) assets may be provided as part of linear playout. The linear playout process may be optimized to improve quality of experience for users and decrease the costs in providing such content.

Cost and efficiency optimization in channel playout

Methods and apparatus are described for providing thinned manifests during a live event. As network usage of a regional internet service provider (ISP) or content delivery network (CDN) becomes unsustainable, new streaming sessions for a live event are provided a thinned manifest that does not have playback options for bitrates above a bitrate limit.

Dynamic congestion control through real-time QOS monitoring in video streaming

Methods and apparatus are described for making broadcast content available as an on-demand asset soon after all of the video fragments of the broadcast content have been made available. As the video fragments of the broadcast content are made available, they are requested and archived. When all of the fragments for the duration of the broadcast content are available (e.g., a live event ends), a VOD-style manifest is generated and the archived fragments are made available for downloading or streaming using the VOD-style manifest.

Just after broadcast media content

Methods and apparatus are described for stitching independently encoded content streams together such that they appear to be part of a single streaming session.

Stitching content streams together

Methods and apparatus are described for reducing subtitle information for just-after-broadcast (JAB) content. Redundant information in subtitle entries is removed so that some client devices with limited memory can handle the single subtitle file that is delivered with JAB content.

Subtitle processing for devices with limited memory

Techniques are described for just-in-time variable adaptive encoding and delivery of media content. Fragments of media content are encoded at bitrates corresponding to available bandwidth of client devices. If the available bandwidth changes, the bitrate at which fragments are being encoded is adjusted to correspond with the changed bandwidth.

Just-in-time variable adaptive encoding and delivery of media content

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