Systems, methods, apparatuses are described for monitoring events in a plurality of different services. A system may monitor manifest files for one or more content items. Manifest files may contain manifest file tags indicating events and insertion opportunities. Events and/or insertion opportunities may be detected, and a switch from one content item to another content item, based on customized user priority preferences, may be caused.

A method, a non-transitory computer readable medium, and a system are disclosed for synchronized playback controls for viewing of video content. The method includes connecting, to a synchronization service, a plurality of media consumption devices; receiving, on the synchronization service, a control request from one or more of the plurality of media consumption devices; and sending, from the synchronization service, a control signal to each of the plurality of media consumption devices to implement a playback control to synchronize a playback of the video content in each of the plurality of media consumption devices.

Example bullet screen play methods and apparatus are described. One example bullet screen play method includes receiving a bullet screen enabling instruction for a target video, where the bullet screen enabling instruction instructs to play a bullet screen in a virtual reality (VR) bullet screen manner. An annular transparent bullet screen layer is drawn in a preset orientation of a video layer of the target video in response to the bullet screen enabling instruction, where a first height of the video layer is less than a second height of the bullet screen layer. Bullet screen information of a real-time bullet screen of the target video is obtained. Three-dimensional coordinates of the real-time bullet screen on the bullet screen layer are calculated based on the bullet screen information. The real-time bullet screen is refreshed and played on the bullet screen layer based on the three-dimensional coordinates.

Systems and methods are described for translating a non-playback command into a playback modification to encourage a recipient of the command to execute on the command. A media guidance application may determine a command from a first user to a second user. The media guidance application may compare the command to a set of playback operation commands for a media asset that is currently being played back. The media guidance application may determine that the command is not contained within the set of playback operation commands. In response to determining that the command is not contained within the set of commands, the media guidance application may determine whether the second user executes a desired outcome of the command. And in response to determining that the second user does not execute the desired outcome of the command, the media guidance application may determine whether to modify playback of the media asset.

A computing platform may be configured to (i) cause a first client station to present a first interface of a SaaS application, (ii) receive, from the first client station, a given video that was recorded at the first client station utilizing the first interface, (iii) transmit a request for the given video to be stored at a third-party cloud storage platform, (iv) receive from a second client station, a communication indicating a request to watch the given video, and (v) after receiving the communication: (a) cause the second client station to present a second interface of the SaaS application, (b) transmit a request to obtain the given video from the third-party cloud storage platform, (c) receive the given video from the third-party cloud storage platform, (d) divide the given video into a sequence of video segments, and (e) stream the sequence of video segments to the second client station.

The present application discloses techniques for playback of live broadcast content. The techniques comprise receiving a request of playing live broadcast content from a client computing device, wherein the request comprises information indicating a first address associated with the live broadcast content, and the request further comprises a playback time parameter indicating a playback time length; generating a second address based on a current system time parameter, the first address, and the playback time parameter; obtaining live broadcast content based on the second address and transmitting the live broadcast content to the client computing device.

A scratchpad creation method and an electronic device are disclosed. The method includes: receiving a first input performed by a user on a target identifier, where the target identifier is associated with a first video file; and displaying a first scratchpad in response to the first input, where the first scratchpad is a scratchpad created based on content of the first video file, the first scratchpad includes at least one video identifier and at least one progress identifier, the video identifier is used to indicate a video clip in the first video file, and the progress identifier is used to indicate completion progress of an operation corresponding to the video clip.

A system that simplifies electronic communication and data sharing by integrating various apps into one. The COMTOOL communication system is characterized by a color coded user ID as a security feature for preventing imposters in a user's contacts to reduce fake news distribution. The system integrates a photo album, a calendar, a voice over IP, a video chart, a video playback, a religious and political group's app and a forum app into one interface and makes them available as a mobile application on a mobile phone, a web based application hosted on a server and as an application installed in television sets. A television remote control is designed to transmit data to a television lens for pausing, rewinding and forwarding a video in playback mode. Double pressing a selector button on a television remote control subscribes to a content provider channel.

The present disclosure relates to a video playback method and apparatus, a storage medium, and an electronic device. The method comprises: receiving a video playback request, the video playback request comprising first video information, and instructing to playback video data corresponding to the first video information by means of a target page; acquiring second video information corresponding to a video preview page, the video preview page being used to playback video data corresponding to the second video information; and when the first video information and the second video information are the same, performing video playback on the target page based on video playback progress information corresponding to the video preview page and video data loaded on the video preview page. Therefore, the transmission amount of video data can be effectively reduced, and the request response time of the video data and the waiting time of video playback can be shortened.

Systems and methods are provided for displaying personalized preview images during trick-play operations of a media asset based on user profile data and an importance of frames of the media asset. A request from a user to move a slider of a progress bar associated with a media asset is received while the media asset is being generated for display. A scene from the media asset that contains a play position indicated by the slider is identified and a frame that best matches user profile data of the user and importance data for the scene is identified. The identified frame is generated for display as an overlay over the displayed media asset.