Delivery of streaming media content

摘要

A device includes a communication interface and one or more processors. The communication interface may receive media guide data, from a media guide server via a network, including information relating to a number of available media items and playlist information relating to at least one available playlist file associated with a particular media item. The one or more processors may receive a user selection of the particular media item and may request the playlist file from a playlist server via the network based on the playlist information via the interface. The interface may receive the playlist file from the playlist server, the playlist file including locations of stream segments corresponding to the selected playlist. The one or more processors may request the stream segments from a content server via the network based on the received playlist file.

主权项

1. A computing-device implemented method, comprising:
generating two or more media streams based on a source media item, wherein the two or more media streams each include a number of stream segments; storing the stream segments for each of the two or more media streams on a content server; generating playlist files for each of the two or more media streams, wherein the playlist files identify network locations of the associated stream segments on the content server; storing the playlist files, for each of the two or more media streams, on a playlist server; generating a variant playlist file that identifies network locations and at least a bandwidth attribute associated with each of the playlist files; inserting playlist information based on the variant playlist file into media guide data, wherein the media guide data is to be used by a client device to generate an interactive media guide user interface, the media guide data including a plurality of entries corresponding to a plurality of media content items, wherein each entry includes media content metadata, media content scheduling data, and media content channel data, wherein the media guide data includes an entry corresponding to the source media item, wherein, following inserting of the playlist information, the entry corresponding to the source media item includes the playlist information, wherein the playlist information identifies the network location of at least one of the playlist files; and transmitting the media guide data to the client device via a network.