A method for serving an audio-only shared content on a video sharing web site, including: receiving a playlist listing a plurality of videos; determining a content identification (content-id) for the plurality of the videos in the playlist; determining that the content-id for the plurality of videos corresponds to an audio-related category; selecting audio-only shared content based on the determination that the content-id corresponds to the audio-related category; and inserting the audio-only shared content between two of the plurality of videos.

Systems, methods and apparatus for processing image data are described. One example method includes performing a conversion between a visual media file and a bitstream. The visual media file comprises image items each comprising a sequence of one or more pictures according to a media file format, and the bitstream comprises access units each comprising one or more pictures each belonging to a layer according to a video coding format. The video coding format defines multiple profiles. The media file format specifies that the bitstream is represented in a file having a specific brand, and that one or more profiles used for representing the video in the bitstream are agnostic of the specific brand.

Systems and methods are disclosed for creating, editing, sharing and distributing high-quality, media-rich web-based communications. The communications are created in a layered fashion that integrates user-selected text, colors, background patterns, images, sound, music, video, or other media. The systems and methods are used to generate, edit, broadcast, and track electronic presentations, brochures, advertisements (such as banner advertisements on highly trafficked media websites), announcements, and interactive web pages, without the need for the user to understand complex programming languages.

A process for the automatic selection of digital photographs from an archive includes the step of providing software programmed to perform at least the following steps and to perform them through such software: accessing an archive of digital photographs containing a plurality of digital photographs; setting a reference geolocation, referred to below as the “home” position; including in an identifiable selection the photographs that comply with at least the following conditions: they were taken at a spatial distance from the “home” position greater than or “greater than or equal to” a predetermined distance; and they were taken in a time sequence between each other during a timeframe where photographs taken at a distance that is less than or “less than or equal to” the predetermined distance from the “home” position are absent; preferably ordering the printing and/or archiving of the selection.

A server may communicatively couple to a user device and an instructor device. The server may receive location information from the user device. The location information may define visual content captured by the user device. The server may transmit the location information to the instructor device. The instructor device may present the visual content based on the received location information and receive input defining an instruction from an instructor. The server may receive instruction information defining the instruction from the instructor device. The server may transmit the instruction information to the user device. The user device may present the instruction overlaid on top of the visual content based on the received instruction information.

Examples are disclosed that relate to providing transition-related assistance during a presentation. One example provides a method comprising, during a rehearsal of a presentation, receiving content of the presentation. Based on the content received, a transition within the presentation is determined via a machine learning model. During a performance of the presentation, the transition is automatically enacted.

A podcast creation and publishing method for execution by a computer system that includes defining, via a graphical user interface, a transitional relationship between at least two media events of a plurality of media events, where a first media event and a second media event at least partially overlap. The method further includes updating corresponding metadata associated with the first and second media events to include the transitional relationship. The method further includes selecting, from a drop down menu displayed on the graphical user interface, an option to generate a podcast from the plurality of media events. The method further includes generating the podcast from the plurality of media events by retrieving the plurality of media events from the media event database along with the metadata, converting the plurality of media events and the metadata into a common format to produce the podcast, and distributing the podcast over a network.

Playback and distribution systems and methods for multimedia files are provided. The multimedia files are encoded with flags associated with the content data of the multimedia files. Through the use of the flags, playback of the content is enhanced without significantly increasing the file size of the multimedia file.

Embodiments of system and method for performing object-modifying commands in an unstructured storage service are described. Embodiments may include utilizing one or more nodes to implement an unstructured storage service including a service interface configured to service data storage requests and data retrieval requests from remote clients. The unstructured storage service is configured to isolate access to each of multiple storage domains of the service to different clients. Embodiments may also include receiving from a given remote client, a request to store a data object to a given storage domain of the service. The request further specifying a command to modify source data for the object prior to storing the object. Embodiments may also include using the unstructured storage service to perform the command without exporting the source data from the unstructured storage service to the given remote client prior to completion of the command.

A method for making a playlist available to the public, in which the playlist comprises user-defined descriptor information. The user-defined descriptor information is entered as free form text or prose.