A MULTIMEDIA TRANSFORMATION DEVICE AND METHOD

摘要

A multimedia transformation device and method are disclosed, wherein said method is used for transforming from the time shifted multimedia data playback in time shift mode to the live multimedia data playback in live mode, and includes: temporarily storing data corresponding to live multimedia data in a buffer; storing data corresponding to live multimedia data in a storage medium; calculating the next playback data block according to the time shift playback mode; obtaining data corresponding to the next playback data block from the storage medium, if data corresponding to the next playback data block can be obtained from the storage medium; and obtaining data corresponding to the next playback data block from said buffer, if data corresponding to the next playback data block can not be obtained from the storage medium but can be obtained from said buffer. The invention can smoothly transform from time shifted image data to live image data.