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1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving a request from a device for media content; responsive to the request, transmitting a manifest associated with the media content to the device, wherein the manifest identifies a presentation of the media content available for streaming by the device, and wherein the manifest comprises:
a list of media elements identifying media files, wherein the identified media files are different versions of the media content and the different versions of the media content are encoded with different media characteristics;a media index element for each media element, wherein the media index element contains information about a seek index associated with the identified media file; anda plurality of seek index chunk elements for each media index element, wherein the plurality of seek index chunk elements for each media index element identifies chunks of the corresponding seek index; receiving a request from the device for a first segment of a media file of the identified media files; and responsive to the request for the first segment of the media file of the identified media files, transmitting the first segment of the media file of the identified media files. |