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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2016
Hulu, Llc, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Baptiste Coudurier, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Eric Buehl, Studio City, CA (US);
Robert A. Post, Jr., Marina del Rey, CA (US);
Alexander V. Gutarin, Atherton, CA (US);
HULU, LLC, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method encodes a first set of segments of a media file based on a first bitrate range to generate a first set of encoded segments. It is then determined when an encoded segment for the first bitrate range includes a bitrate that satisfies a second bitrate range. When the encoded segment for the first bitrate range includes the bitrate that satisfies the second bitrate range, the method does not encode a segment in the first set of segments that corresponds to the encoded segment when the media file is encoded based on the second bitrate range to generate a second set of encoded segments for the second bitrate range. A first playlist for the first bitrate range is identified and a second playlist for the second bitrate range is identified. The second playlist also includes the encoded segment that was encoded for the first bitrate range.