System to communicate media

摘要

A system for communicating media is disclosed. Such a system may include, for example, a media broken into a plurality of independent segment files that may represent sequential portions of the media. One of the segment files can be encoded to have a format that is different than the encoded format of another one of the segment files. The formats may be chosen to allow outputting of information in the segments at different rates. A list may include network addresses for the segment files, and a content delivery system may be deployed to distribute media content to remotely located requesting devices by sending the segment files in response to requests for the segment files.

主权项

1. A media system, comprising:
an electronic device having a buffering component, a processing system, a transceiver, and a memory system, wherein the electronic device is configured to utilize HTTP to request a streaming delivery of an available media that is segmented into a series of components to facilitate delivery, wherein the series of components includes at least a given segment and an other segment; a collection of instructions stored in the memory system and operable when executed by the processing system to allow the electronic device: (1) to utilize HTTP to request the given segment; (2) to receive information representing the given segment in response; (3) to utilize HTTP to request the other segment; and (4) to receive information representing the other segment, wherein the given segment has a given compression format that is different than a compression format of the other segment; and the buffering component of the electronic device configured to output information in the given segment at a given rate associated with the given compression format and to output information in the other segment at a rate that is different than the given rate.