DISTRIBUTION OF REQUESTED VIDEO SEQUENCES VIA SATELLITES

摘要

The invention relates to the distribution of requested video sequences via satellite, especially music video clips. In order to easily and reliably distribute requested video sequences with professional quality to individual authorized receivers with minor load on the transmission paths and low transmission costs, the computer (1) has a receiver-specific identification (4). The video sequence (5) is distributed to the satellite receiver (13) within a packet-switching data service and stored in the storage unit (15) of the computer (1). The computer (1) includes an MPEG-2 decoder(15) for real time decoding of MPEG-2 files representing the video sequences into a video signal (18). In an advantageous embodiment, real time decoding is successfully conducted only when a video provider-specific reproduction software (16) is used, wherein decoding of the MPEG-2 files is carried out in real time using a video provider-specific key (17) without storing uncoded video sequences (5).