Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method in which a processing system obtains encoded video content, and transmits the encoded video content over a network for presentation at a communication device by a video player executing on the communication device. The encoded video content is decoded in a decoding process by a decoder of an operating system of the communication device to generate decoded video content; the decoded video content is analyzed by a complexity analyzer of the operating system to generate a video complexity report. The method also includes receiving the video complexity report over the network from the communication device, and adjusting a data rate for the encoded video content, based at least in part on the video complexity report, to generate adjusted video content for transmission to the communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed.

The present invention relates to a signal processing device and an image display device including same. The signal processing device according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a streaming data processing unit for receiving streaming data, generating list information including information related to a plurality of first unit of data, on the basis of the received streaming data, and outputting the generated list information; and a decoder for receiving the list information and decoding the plurality of data of the first unit, on the basis of the list information, wherein the streaming data processing unit outputs data decoded by the decoder. Accordingly, the number of inter process communications can be reduced during signal processing of streaming data.

The present application discloses a video processing method, an electronic device, and a computer-readable medium. The method comprises: a system playing module acquiring a video file to be played and sent by a target client; determining whether playing of the video file is supported; if not, parsing the video file to acquire an audio stream and a video stream in the video file; configuring an audio decoder identifier for the audio stream, and configuring a video decoder identifier for the video stream; and sending to an FFmpeg module the video stream, the audio stream, the video decoder identifier, and the audio decoder identifier, such that the FFmpeg module decodes the video file to acquire audio playing data and video playing data, wherein the audio playing data and the video playing data can be played by an audio and video output module of an electronic device.

Disclosed are a video bit rate determining method and apparatus, an electronic device, a storage medium. The method includes: determining a cancellation parameter ξ(k) for cancelling a throughput prediction error of a video block F.sub.k; determining a cache amount prediction value of each of video blocks from the video block F.sub.k to the video block F.sub.k+N−1 at the end of download thereof based on a throughput prediction value of the video blocks and ξ(k); determining a video playback quality loss value according to a weight value of the bit rate change between adjacent video blocks requested and a cache prediction error between the cache amount prediction value and a preset cache amount target value of the video blocks at the end of download thereof, requesting the video block F.sub.k at a bit rate that does not exceed a bit rate r(k) when the video playback quality loss value is minimum.

In the described examples, a video integrated circuit (IC) chip includes a video input port (VIP) that receives a video stream. The video IC chip also includes a processing unit coupled to a non-transitory memory and is configured to detect the presence of a data stream provided to the VIP, cause the VIP to switch a target partition for the data stream from a given partition in the memory to another partition in the memory and to write the data stream to the other partition in the memory.

Provided is a data processing system. The system includes a data source, a data receiver, a plurality of source code data frame buffer regions, a data processing module and a state register. The data source is configured to generate a data frame, the data receiver is configured to receive the data frame, and write the data frame into one of a plurality of data frame buffer regions, each of the plurality of source code data frame buffer regions is configured to store a data frame to be processed, the data processing module is configured to perform subsequent processing on data and the state register is configured to store a state of the system and states of the plurality of source code data frame buffer regions.

An AVR device in accordance with one or more embodiments connects audio and video source devices to audio and video rendering devices. A front panel user interface including a display is integrated in the housing of the AVR device. Input-output (IO) modules are coupled to a backplane board in the housing to be connected to the source devices and the rendering devices. The IO modules include at least one network interface. System-on-Modules (SoMs) are mounted on the backplane board. The SoMs are configured to decode and process audio and video data received from the audio and video source devices for rendering by the audio and video rendering devices and execute an operating system generating a GUI displayed on the display of the front panel user interface. A video subsystem module on the backplane board is configured to route the audio and video data between the plurality of SoMs and the IO modules.

An approach for streaming a coded virtual reality (VR) video stream including receiving a segments of the coded VR video stream; storing the segments in a playback buffer; based on determining that a current playback time is within a threshold time of a playback time of a buffered segment, that a current duration of the playback buffer is larger than a threshold duration, and that a current bandwidth is larger than a threshold bandwidth, and that a current viewport is different from a previous viewport, storing at least one refined tile corresponding to the current viewport in the playback buffer; constructing a frame based on the buffered segment and the at least one refined tile corresponding to the current viewport; and decoding the coded VR video stream based on the constructed frame.

A set-top box for changing channels and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, the set-top box includes a network interface controller that is configured to receive a source internet protocol television signal, which includes two channels, from an external source and at least partially prepare the source internet protocol signal in order to forward the tuned signal to a television. The set-top box saves in a buffer the at least partially prepared second channel beginning at a recent periodic, sequential signal access point. In response to receiving a channel change instruction when the set-top box is forwarding the at least partially prepared first channel signal, the set-top box causes the television tuner to forward the at least partially prepared signal based on the second channel stored in the buffer beginning at the recent periodic, sequential signal access point.

Systems and methods for performing trick play functionality using trick play streams during adaptive bitrate streaming in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. One embodiment includes requesting a video container index from a video container file containing a video stream from a plurality of alternative streams of video; requesting at least one portion of the video stream using at least one entry from the video container index; decoding the at least one portion of the video stream; receiving at least one user instruction to perform a visual search of the media; requesting a trick play container index from a trick play container file containing a trick play stream; requesting at least one frame of video from the at least one trick play stream; and decoding and displaying the at least one frame of video from the trick play stream.