Systems and methods for providing transport control

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 the 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 currently broadcasting program, the method comprising:
generating, using control circuitry, a display of the currently broadcasting program; receiving a scheduled start time and a scheduled end time associated with the currently broadcasting program; generating a display of a transport control interface that indicates a first time length of the currently broadcasting program based on the scheduled start time and on the scheduled end time; receiving an adjusted start time based on at least one change in a running time of the currently broadcasting program; storing the received adjusted start time in a memory; and while the currently broadcasting program is being broadcast, modifying the transport control interface to display the adjusted start time, wherein the modified transport control interface indicates:
a second time length of the currently broadcasting program based on the adjusted start time, andat least one recorded time segment of the second time length of the currently broadcasting program,wherein the at least one recorded time segment is visually distinguished from a different recorded time segment of the currently broadcasting program, andwherein the at least one time recorded segment is visually distinguished from the different recorded time segment based on whether the at least one time segment was recorded in response to a specific user command or automatically recorded into buffer memory.