Video replay systems and methods

摘要

A video replay system which allows for the payback of video files from a buffer in random access memory and from disk to minimize the delay between capturing and replaying a desired video portion. In one embodiment, a portion of RAM is allocated to provide a buffer for holding video files in memory before the riles are written to a hard drive or other non-volatile storage. An index of key frames is also stored in the buffer. The computer system executes software that is responsive to an operator's commands to read the video fifes and index and playback desired video portions in a variety of modes and speeds, including slow motion, reverse, fast-forward, and slow or fast reverse.

主权项

1. A system for providing a video playback of an event, comprising:
a computer having a processor operable to receive a plurality of video data inputs each of an event and connected to a non-volatile storage and a memory buffer, wherein at least a portion of the memory buffer has been allocated for storing video data and information related to the video data, and wherein at least a portion of the memory buffer is restricted so that the portion cannot be the subject of both a read operation and a write operation at the same time; software operable on the computer to receive the video data inputs and generate a key frame index and store at least a portion of the video data and at least a portion of the index in data blocks in memory; software operable on the computer to store at least a portion of the video data and at least a portion of the index in non-volatile storage; a controller connected to said computer; a display connected to said computer; software operable on the computer and responsive to a command from said controller to generate a playback of at least a portion of the video data for an event; software operable on the computer to check the key frame index and determine whether the portion of the video data responsive to the operator command is stored in non-volatile storage or memory and to read the video data from either the non-volatile store or from memory in response to the check of the key frame index; and software operable to generate a display of the playback of the portion of the video data in a reverse mode in response to a command therefor from said controller.