MULTIMEDIA CONTENT ASSEMBLY

摘要

A method for assembling multimedia streams enables assembly of any of a numb er of possible output multimedia streams from segments of source multimedia streams. Enabling assembly of the streams includes computing stream fragment s for insertion between successive of the segments to form any of the output streams. According to such a method, computation required for creating transition points in source MPEG streams can be largely performed as a preprocess that produces data that can be stored for use in later assembling a stream, assembly of a stream requires relatively little computation and can be implemented using relatively inexpensive equipment, for example, in software .