Downloading media objects

摘要

Among other things, two or more files are processed that each represent, in a streaming format, a portion of a media item. A file download facility at a user device can download the two or more processed files as if they were a single file.

主权项

1. A method comprising
storing at a first server individual video files that are each expressed in a video streaming format and together comprise a video, downloading at least some of the individual files from the first server to a second server, packaging at the second server at least some of the downloaded files in a single larger file, downloading the single larger file to a persistent storage at the mobile device, refraining from playing out at the mobile device any of the individual files while the single larger file is being downloaded, and when the mobile device has access to a cellular data connection but lacks access to a WiFi network connection, playing out the individual files that have been restored from the single larger file as a presentation of the video on the mobile device.