SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTIMEDIA CONTENT DISTRIBUTION AND PLAYBACK

摘要

The present invention relates generally to multimedia playback devices, and more particularly to systems and methods for multimedia content distribution and playback. In accordance with one preferred embodiment, a method for distributing multimedia content to a playback system includes the steps of converting the multimedia content into an intermediate format, loading the converted multimedia content into the playback system, and converting the multimedia content from the intermediate format to a format supported by the playback system, wherein the intermediate format and the format supported by the playback system are different.