Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Tarun Jindal

Yongjun Wu

Kyle Alexander Woo

Sitaraman Ganapathy

Abhishek Kumar

Mairo Pedrini

Varun Chadha

Rakesh Tangirala

Manish Rao

Alon Dulce

Ron Searl

Techniques for transition files for use with content files and related metadata are described. In an example, a system determines a cue point of a video content file at which targeted content is to be presented. The system determines that a set of transition frames is to be presented at a start of a presentation of the targeted content or at an end of the presentation of the targeted content. The set of transition frames are available from a transition file that is separate from the video content file. The system generates metadata associated with the video content file. The metadata indicates that the set of transition frames is to be presented and an association of the set of transition frames with the cue point.

Transition file for use with content file and related metadata

Methods and apparatus are described for providing media presentations that include content originating from multiple sources. Techniques disclosed include server-side logic for inserting secondary content, such as advertisements, into primary content, such as a VOD presentation. Systems implementing the disclosed techniques can support different viewer device capabilities relating to displaying media presentations that include content from multiple sources.

Manifest data for server-side media fragment insertion

Techniques are described for providing media presentations that include content originating from multiple sources in ways that are effectively transparent to end user devices. Manifest data provided to an end user device include a key encoded in the URL for each of the content fragments. The key encodes one or more interstitial periods of secondary content within the overall presentation of primary content. When a media server receives a content request from the end user device, the media server determines from the key encoded in the URL and the range of content requested whether the request corresponds to the primary content or the secondary content.

Server-side insertion of media fragments

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