Method of smooth transition between advertisement stream and main stream

摘要

A system and method for processing and displaying at least two media content streams, a first content stream and an auxiliary content stream. The system receives, stores, decodes and displays at least two consecutive media content streams. The media content streams include an initial XML which includes a memory allocation datum in relation to the auxiliary content stream. The system utilizes the memory allocation datum to download and store auxiliary media content while the first content is being decoded and displayed.

主权项

1. A method for transition between at least two media streams, comprising:
transmitting by a streaming media receiver of a first content request to a content provider, requesting a first media stream, the streaming media receiver comprising a stream management module, a memory, a decoder module and a display module; receiving by the streaming media receiver of an XML file, the XML file comprising XML and including a first location for the first media stream, at least one auxiliary location for at least one auxiliary media stream, at least one timecode for determining a start display time for the at least one auxiliary media stream, and a memory allocation datum indicating a quantity of memory; receiving of the first media stream by the streaming media; storing of the first media stream in the memory; buffering, decoding, and displaying of the first media stream by the streaming media receiver; repetitively determining by the stream management module of an available memory quantity equal to a quantity of the memory not used for storing the first media stream, after the first media stream has been entirely stored in the memory; repetitively comparing the memory allocation datum to the available memory quantity; receiving of the at least one auxiliary media stream by the streaming media receiver when the available memory quantity is equal to or greater than the memory allocation datum; storing of the at least one auxiliary media stream in the memory; and decoding and displaying of the at least one auxiliary media stream when the at least one timecode is reached.