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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2022
Filed:
May. 04, 2021
Sling Media Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, IN;
Ankit Rathi, Maharashtra, IN;
Abhinav Puri, Punjab, IN;
Sling Media Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, IN;
Abstract
Techniques are described for transparent switching between live-edge and non-live-edge playback responsive to user navigation. For example, live content is available to a user both via a live stream from a remote live edge server, and via a recorded-live stream from a remote recording server. During playback of a live content stream, a player system uses a warm-up player to continually receive, pre-decode, and pre-buffer the live stream at the live edge to maintain a pre-buffered warm-up stream; and the player system uses a primary player to decode and generate a playback stream for playback. As the user navigates playback between live-edge and non-live-edge locations, the player system can seamlessly switch between generating the playback stream based on the recorded-live stream for non-live-edge playback, or based on the pre-buffered warm-up stream for live-edge playback.