Sonic Ip, Inc.

Timothy Sayre

Jason A Braness

Eric William Grab

Adam H Li

Brian T Fudge

Michael John Floyd

Damien Chavarria

Jerome Rota

Jerald Donaldson

Heather Hitchcock

Benjamin Cote

Darrius Nguyen Thompson

Alastair Mayo

Christopher Durham

Abou Ul Aala Ahsan

Ahsan Butt

Sander Van Zoest

Heather Hitchcook

Methods, systems, and computer readable media for encoding, distributing, and decoding multimedia files with interleaved video, subtitle, and audio chunks are provided. Multimedia files in accordance with embodiments of the present invention can contain multiple video tracks, multiple audio tracks, multiple subtitle tracks, data that can be used to generate a menu interface to access the contents of the file and 'meta data' concerning the contents of the file. In one embodiment, the generated 'audio,' &#x2018;video&#x2019; and &#x2018;subtitle&#x2019; chunks are interleaved so that the &#x2018;audio&#x2019; and &#x2018;subtitle&#x2019; chunks are located within the file prior to the &#x2018;video&#x2019; chunks containing information concerning the video frames to which they correspond. In other embodiments, the &#x2018;audio&#x2019; and &#x2018;subtitle&#x2019; chunks can be located after the &#x2018;video&#x2019; chunks to which they correspond. One embodiment of a multimedia file in accordance with the present invention includes a series of encoded video frames and encoded menu information.

Multimedia distribution system for multimedia files with interleaved media chunks of varying types

A multimedia file and methods of generating, distributing and using the multimedia file are described. Multimedia files in accordance with embodiments of the present invention can contain multiple video tracks, multiple audio tracks, multiple subtitle tracks, data that can be used to generate a menu interface to access the contents of the file and 'meta data' concerning the contents of the file. Multimedia files in accordance with several embodiments of the present invention also include references to video tracks, audio tracks, subtitle tracks and 'meta data' external to the file. One embodiment of a multimedia file in accordance with the present invention includes a series of encoded video frames and encoded menu information.

Multimedia distribution system for multimedia files having subtitle information

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