A method and apparatus for performing an integrated search is provided. An interface is provided that allows users to search and select any data related to a searchable term. Searchable terms may comprise titles of content, actors, and tags. Upon receiving results from the initial search, the user progresses through the initial search by selecting a result from the initial search and conducting a further search of that selection. The search may progress through many layers of searching in order to find information useful to the user and the user may perform actions based upon results of the search. The search implements a display with two columns, the first column displaying selectable data, and the second column displaying results to the selected data. The search is further customizable based upon a privacy level selected by the user.

A system for distributing media includes a wide area network (WAN), a media player coupled to the WAN at a first home, and a media server coupled to the WAN at a second home for providing media. A service is coupled to the WAN for receiving a request for media from the media player and for establishing a connection between the first and second homes over the WAN. Media is streamed across the WAN from the second home to the first home. The system may include a storage device coupled to the media player where media is transferred across the WAN for storage at the storage device. A media device may be coupled to the media player for playing the streamed/transferred media where the media player and the media device may comprise a television, stereo, or computer and the media item may comprise video, photographs, or audio.

A system and method for transmission of a video stream are provided. The system may include: an encoder adapted to generate a video stream comprising a plurality of encoded frames, encoded according to at least one encoding parameter; a comparator in communication with the encoder, the comparator adapted to compare encoded frames of the plurality of encoded frames with input frames to determine a fitness metric reflective of visual quality of the encoded frames; and a controller in communication with the comparator, the controller adapted to adjust the at least one encoding parameter based on the fitness metric.

A system is provided for streaming broadcast media content between peer devices in a media distribution network. The system includes a virtual router panel that includes a notification service controller that receives a data communication request from two or more peer devices and a data communication handshaking controller selects a delivery protocol between the two devices based on exchanging communication candidates that identify peer addresses. A media streaming tunnel generator establishes a streaming tunnel between the first device and the second device based on the respective delivery protocol selected by the data communication handshaking controller; and an encoder packetizes video, audio and ancillary grains directly as packets of the broadcast media content to be streamed directly from the first device to the second device via the established streaming tunnel without multiplexing.

Disclosed are an electronic device and a method for controlling the electronic device. Specifically, the electronic device according to the present disclosure receives a first image signal and a second image signal which are separated from an original image signal through a first channel and a second channel having different frequency bandwidths, and which have different data rates. When the first image signal and the second image signal are received, the electronic device determines whether an error exists in the second image signal, obtains a first output image signal and a second output image signal on the basis of the first image signal and the second image signal according to a result of the determination, and outputs the obtained first output image signal or second output image signal.

Methods, systems, and computer readable media may be operable to facilitate the resolving of a tuner conflict at a digital video recorder. When a multimedia device receives a request for a new recording session, and there is no available tuner for carrying out the recording session, the multimedia device may determine a duration of time until a tuner becomes available. If the duration of time until a tuner becomes available is less than a threshold duration, the multimedia device may initiate the recording session once the tuner becomes available, and the missing portion of the recording may be recovered at an alternate time or from an alternate content source. When the missing portion is recovered, the recording and the missing portion may be stitched together. If the duration of time until a tuner becomes available is greater than a threshold, the multimedia device may present alternate times for recording the requested content.

A control signal transmission circuit and a control signal receiving circuit for an audio/video interface are provided. The control signal transmission circuit includes an audio/video interface encoder, a signal packaging circuit and a data allocator. The audio/video interface encoder is configured to receive an audio packet and supports a user-defined packet format. The signal packaging circuit is configured to receive a first control signal and package the first control signal into a control data packet according to the user-defined packet format. The data allocator is configured to receive a video data and a second control signal and to mix the second control signal and the video data to generate a mixed data packet. The audio/video interface encoder packages the control data packet, the mixed data packet and the audio packet according to an audio/video transmission protocol to generate an audio/video and control data.

A control signal transmission circuit and a control signal receiving circuit for an audio/video interface are provided. The control signal transmission circuit includes an audio/video interface encoder, a signal packaging circuit and a data allocator. The audio/video interface encoder is configured to receive an audio packet and supports a user-defined packet format. The signal packaging circuit is configured to receive a first control signal and package the first control signal into a control data packet according to the user-defined packet format. The data allocator is configured to receive a video data and a second control signal and to mix the second control signal and the video data to generate a mixed data packet. The audio/video interface encoder packages the control data packet, the mixed data packet and the audio packet according to an audio/video transmission protocol to generate an audio/video and control data.

A method at an electronic device with a display includes: displaying a user interface having a first region and a second region; receiving, and displaying in the first region of the user interface, a live video stream of a physical environment captured by a remote video camera; displaying, in the second region, a timeline corresponding to a timespan for a first portion of a duration during which the live video stream may have been recorded; in response to receiving a user interaction to move the timespan to a second portion of the duration, transitioning the displayed timeline to a new timeline that corresponds to the timespan for the second portion, and while transitioning, displaying, in the first region, a subset of video frames representing the first and/or second portion of the duration.

A content distribution network includes a first server in communication with an anycast server that provides content via a unicast signal, and with a multicast server that provides the content via a multicast signal. The first server is configured to receive a list of source addresses associated with the content, and to provide a metadata file including an anycast Internet protocol address of the anycast server from the list of source addresses as an Internet protocol address of the content in response to a first request for the content. When the number of client devices requesting the content exceeds a first threshold, the first server receives an updated list of sources including a multicast Internet protocol address of a multicast server, and provides the multicast Internet protocol address of the multicast server as the Internet protocol address of the content in the metadata file.