Systems and methods for providing a transport control interface

摘要

A transport control interface may be provided by an interactive television program guide application to provide information, control or both for live and recorded video programming. The transport control interface may indicate to the user this time duration of a live or recorded program and any time segments of the program that have been recorded. The transport control interface may automatically adjust the start and end time shown to accommodate various factors such as continuous viewing on a particular channel, multiple recorded segments, buffer size, etc. Various information associated with the live or recorded video programming may be displayed in the transport control interface.

主权项

1. A method for providing information about a video program, the method comprising:
generating for display, using control circuitry, the video program and a transport control interface that indicates a time length of the video program, wherein the transport control interface indicates:
a first stored time segment of the video program which is recorded in response to a specific user command, anda second stored time segment of the video program which is automatically recorded into buffer memory,wherein the first stored time segment and the second stored time segment are visually distinguished.