Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, accessing a terrestrial content service that delivers media content to premises of a subscriber for presentation to media processing equipment of the subscriber. An interruption in the terrestrial content service is determined that interrupts the delivery of the media content item to the media processing equipment. An alternative media content item is identified based on the media content item, wherein the alternative media content item is available by way of a direct broadcast satellite service not subscribed to by the subscriber. The direct broadcast satellite service is provisioned to the media processing equipment responsive to the determining of the interruption in the terrestrial content service. Other embodiments are disclosed.

A video delivery device includes a transmitting/receiving unit for transmitting/receiving a 2D or 3D video signal to/from one or more display devices connected via a ring network. The transmitting/receiving unit includes an UL transmitting unit and an UL receiving unit for transmitting and receiving a video signal via an uplink of the ring network, and a DL transmitting unit and a DL receiving unit for transmitting and receiving a video signal via a downlink. For transmitting/receiving a 2D video signal, the DL transmitting unit and the DL receiving unit transmit and receive the 2D video signal. For transmitting/receiving a 3D video signal, the DL transmitting unit and the DL receiving unit transmit and receive a left-eye video signal, and the UL transmitting unit and the UL receiving unit transmit and receive a right-eye video signal.

System, method, and computer program product embodiments are disclosed for integrated diagnosis and debugging of content distribution systems. A system includes a networking module that receives, from a central server, instructions for running network diagnostics on a cable headend. A diagnostics environment module is configured to perform diagnostic operations based on the received instructions. The networking module transmits results of the diagnostic operations to the central server.

A message sending method and device, and a code stream processing method and device are provided. In the message sending method, a first server acquires and caches a code stream which is the same as a code stream of a second server; the first server acquires an initial position for sending the code stream; and after the second server stops sending the code stream, the first server constructs a message corresponding to the code stream, and sends the message starting from the initial position according to a source Internet Protocol (IP) address of the second server.

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method for providing redundancy in a video data stream. For every data frame of a plurality of data frames of video content, the method includes dividing the data frame into a plurality of data segments and copying a plurality of each of the plurality of data segments to the plurality of data frames in a data stream to provide redundancy for the data frame within the plurality of data frames in the data stream. The plurality of each of the plurality of data segments is distributed across the plurality of data frames to provide generate a plurality of redundancy-enhanced data frames that provide the redundancy over a protection interval associated with a network path. The method includes transmitting a data stream comprising the plurality of redundancy-enhanced data frames to a receiver via the network path. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Disclosed are a method and system for cloud storage of a video, and method and system for previewing a cloud-stored video. The method for the cloud storage of the video includes: after receiving a video recording plan issued by a platform, a management server determines a target storage device according to a load balancing policy, and issues the video recording plan to the target storage device; the target storage device obtains and stores, according to the video recording plan, a video stream from a front-end device corresponding to the video recording plan; when the target storage device is not able to obtain the video stream from the front-end device, the target storage device sends an alarm to the management server; and after receiving the alarm, the management server issues the video recording plan to other storage devices according to the load balancing policy.

A network communicates an extended reality (XR) traffic with a user equipment (UE) with frame error concealment to limit a duration of temporal error propagation. The network also transmits a report of failure or a request for retransmission to the UE in an event of a network transmission failure.

Disclosed are various embodiments for facilitating uninterrupted playback of video streams using lower quality cached files. A video file corresponding to an entirety of a video content feature encoded at a first quality may be obtained from another client on a local network. A video stream corresponding to the video content feature encoded at a second quality higher than the first quality is then obtained. The video stream is rendered for playback on a display. In response to detecting an unavailability of the video stream at a particular time in the video content feature, the video file is rendered for playback on the display in place of the video stream and commences at the particular time in the video content feature. The video file may then be sent to yet another client on the local network.

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method for providing redundancy in a video data stream. For every data frame of a plurality of data frames of video content, the method includes dividing the data frame into a plurality of data segments and copying a plurality of each of the plurality of data segments to the plurality of data frames in a data stream to provide redundancy for the data frame within the plurality of data frames in the data stream. The plurality of each of the plurality of data segments is distributed across the plurality of data frames to provide generate a plurality of redundancy-enhanced data frames that provide the redundancy over a protection interval associated with a network path. The method includes transmitting a data stream comprising the plurality of redundancy-enhanced data frames to a receiver via the network path. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Methods for generating a transport stream (e.g., an MPEG-2 transport stream) such that the transport stream has at least one perfect splicing property, and/or such that the transport stream is indicative of at least one audio/video program and includes metadata indicative of whether the program has a perfect splicing property. Other aspects are methods for splicing such a transport stream, audio/video processing units (e.g., splicers) configured to perform any embodiment of the inventive method, and audio/video processing units which include a buffer memory which stores at least one segment of transport stream generated in accordance with any embodiment of the inventive method.