LIVE ENCODING FOR DISTRIBUTION OF LONG TAIL MEDIA CONTENT

摘要

Systems, methods and devices are described to deliver media programs to remotely-located media players via a network. A media server receives a request for the media program from the remotely-located media player via the network and determines whether the requested media program has been previously encoded. If so, the previously-encoded media program is delivered to the remotely-located media player. If the requested media program has not been previously encoded, the requested media program is live encoded to thereby create a media stream encoding the requested media program in response to the request received from the remotely-located media player.

主权项

1. A method executable by a media server to deliver a media program to a remotely-located media player via a network, the method comprising:
receiving, by the media server, a request for the media program from the remotely-located media player via the network; determining if the requested media program has been previously encoded, and, if so, the media server directing the delivery of the previously-encoded media program to the remotely-located media player; and if the requested media program has not been previously encoded, the media server directing a live encoding of the requested media program to thereby create a media stream encoding the requested media program in response to the request received from the remotely-located media player.