A sever for providing television and system and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, the server 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 signal to a television. The server 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 request instruction from a requesting television when the server is forwarding the at least partially prepared first channel signal, the server forwards the at least partially prepared signal based on the second channel stored in the buffer beginning at the recent periodic, sequential signal access point.

A content streaming system and methodology for facilitating the management of content streaming. A video packaging and origination service provides streaming content that is organized according to a set of encoded content chunks. A video playback application processes the set of encoded content chunks to dynamically form a content segment for live video streaming. The video playback application further processes the set of encoded content chunks to apply framerate heuristics associated with encoded content segments.

A method is provided for streaming transcoded HLS video from a video asset to allow a minimum startup delay time. A method includes pre-transcoding a first number of the HLS chunks. Then, once a request is received from a remote HLS client for the HLS video asset, transmitting a number of the pre-transcoded chunks to the remote HLS player. The pre-transcoded chunks are transmitted during a startup period until real-time transcoded chunks can be received and processed by the remote HLS player at a time position to allow seamless transition from the pre-transcoded chunks.

Disclosed are a subtitle switching method and device, the method comprising the following steps: receiving a subtitle switching instruction input by a user; acquiring to-be-switched subtitle data corresponding to the subtitle switching instruction and stored in a corresponding preset buffer area and a present time stamp of video and audio data currently being played; and outputting and displaying subtitle data of the to-be-switched subtitle data having a time stamp matching the present time stamp. When playing a video and audio file, the present invention caches subtitles in all languages, removes stored data of language subtitle data not currently being played and having a time stamp earlier than that of the video and audio data currently being played in a buffer area, and outputs and displays data of the to-be-switched subtitle data having a time stamp matching that of the video and audio data.

A client receives streaming data according to Moving Picture Experts Group-Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH) standard. The client includes a transmitter which transmits a Media Presentation Description (MPD) request or a segment request to a server, and a receiver which receives an MPD specified in the MPD request and a segment specified in the segment request. The MPD request contains information requesting transmission of an initialization segment by a push. The receiver receives the initialization segment transmitted by the push.

Apparatus, methods and systems associated with electronic devices can involve determining a plurality of available services providing content, wherein each service has an associated content format; determining an order of the plurality of available services, based on the content format of each service and a sequence of switching between the plurality of available services, to reduce a transition time when switching, based on the sequence, from a first one of the plurality of available services to a second one of the plurality of services different from the first one; generating, based on the order, a list of the plurality of available services representing a program guide, wherein the first and second services are adjacent in the program guide; and enabling, based on the program guide, switching from the first service to the second service.

The present disclosure relates to a signal processing device and an image display apparatus including the same. A signal processing device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a synchronizer configured to decode bootstrap data of first frame data in the received baseband signal; and an error corrector including a decoder configured to decode basic signaling data of the first frame data, and processing payload data of the first frame data is started within a first frame data period or a reception period of the first frame data. Accordingly, a data output time according to processing of frame data can be shortened.

A device for encoding and sending media data includes a scheduler unit that schedules transmission of media data, a media encoder, and a transmitter that transmits according to a schedule formed by the scheduler unit. The scheduler unit sends a first set of data to the media encoder representing a number of media segments of the media data to be broadcast and a time at which the media data must be available for delivery at the transmitter of the media broadcast device. The media encoder sends a second set of data representing a first number of estimated encoding bytes for the media data to the media encoder. The scheduler unit sends, to the transmitter, the number of media segments including respective portions of the encoded media data at or before the time at which the media data must be available for delivery at the transmitter.

Methods, systems, and computer readable media described herein can be operable to facilitate different reporting treatment for certain join requests received during a fast channel change. A gateway device may automatically detect the FCC (Fast Channel Change) via a configured interval. The gateway device may be configured such that if a subsequent IGMP (Internet group management protocol) join request was received within the configured interval since a previous join request, the previous join request may be ignored. According to the configuration of the gateway device, in a FCC, only the first channel and the last channel are reported, and the middle channel changes may be ignored.

Devices, systems, method, and program products are provided, which support temporally-seamless change functionalities during multichannel streaming sessions established between a streaming media server and a client media receiver. In embodiments, the method includes outputting, to a display device, a first streaming channel contained in a streaming channel bundle and assigned a high priority level. When receiving a channel change request to view a second streaming channel, the client media receiver monitors for additional channel change requests over a predetermined wait period. If an additional channel change request is received within the wait period, the client media receiver repeats the step of monitoring. Conversely, if an additional channel change request is not received with the wait period, the client media receiver sends a channel reprioritization command to the streaming media server to prioritize the second streaming channel over the first streaming channel in continued transmission of the streaming channel bundle.