34 results about "Gapless playback" patented technology

A method and apparatus for seamless playback of content and apparatus are provided. The method includes: discovering, by a second device, a first device which is currently playing back a content in response to a seamless playback request; requesting the first device to transmit a property set related to a currently played back asset; and seamlessly playing back the content on the basis of the property set transmitted from the first device. Accordingly, a content can be seamlessly played back between devices through various types of downloads or streaming handovers in an open content market environment which supports device compatibility and a cross-service between heterogeneous services.

The invention discloses a segmental network video seamless playing method and device. The method comprises the steps of: A1, downloading a playing list; A2, obtaining a storage address of each played segment based on the playing list; A3, setting a first video data buffer region and a second video data buffer region; A4, respectively downloading and buffering video data of adjacent played segments into the first video data buffer region and the second video data buffer region based on the sequence of the played segments, and decoding the video data for playing. The device comprises a control module, a buffer module and a decoding module, wherein the control module, the buffer module and the decoding module are connected in sequence; the control module is used for downloading the playing list, calculating a hop-broadcasting time stamp and performing video hop-broadcasting treatment; the buffer module is used for arranging the first video data buffer region and the second video data buffer region, and buffering the video data; the decoding module is used for obtaining the video data alternately in the first video data buffer region and the second video data buffer region, and decoding the video data.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a seamless video play method and a player. The seamless video play method includes the steps that the play progress of the current video file is monitored, and a head index file of the next video file is loaded when it is determined that the play progress of the current video file exceeds a preset play progress threshold value; video file data corresponding to the head index file are loaded; the loaded video file data are played when the current video file is completely played. Compared with the prior art, when a user watches a multi-episode video file through a terminal device and one episode of the video file is completely played, the user does not need to restart the player to play the next episode of the video file, and therefore the temporary blank screen phenomenon caused by restart of the player is avoided, waiting time is shortened for the user and user experience is improved.

A software architecture and control protocol that provides seamless playback of multiple clips of media data across a data network. Conventional server-based data network architecture where playback logic resides on the servers does not provide the capability of seamless playback of multiple clips stored in different servers. The present invention allows users to specify a playlist and provides control on the client with the implementation of a “client pull” data transport model. According to the present invention, the playlist is translated into a plurality of frame accurate requests, which are sent from the client to the servers one request at a time. The servers, upon receiving the requests, retrieve the corresponding frames of media data and transmit the media data back to the client. In this way, the present invention allows a user-interface to provide seamless playback of multiple clips that reside on different servers on the client workstation.

Methods and apparatus are provided for seamless playback of media files by an application of a computing device. In one embodiment a method includes detecting a user selection for playback of one or more media files by the application, initiating playback of a first media file by the application based on the selection, and determining a time period to pre-load a second media file during playback of the first media file. The method may further include pre-loading data for the second media file, initiating playback of a buffer portion following an endpoint of the first media file, and continuing playback of the second media file following the endpoint of the buffer portion.

The invention discloses a fast switching method and device for multiple players under a single decoder and a storage medium. The method comprises the following steps: when a first play instruction sent by a server 1 is received, playing a video 1 according to the first play instruction; sending video data of the video 1 to a buffer area for caching; when a second play instruction sent by a server 2 is received, pausing the video 1, acquiring a current timestamp of the video 1, and playing the video 2 according to the second play instruction; updating data of the buffer area according to the current timestamp; and when a third play instruction sent by the server 1 is received, sending the updated video data of the buffer area to the decoder according to the third play instruction, and continuing to play the video 1, so as to realize the fast switching of the videos. According to the fast switching method for the multiple players under the single decoder provided by the invention, when video switching is performed on the multiple players under the single decoder, seamless playback can be realized, thereby improving user experience.

The invention provides a method and a device for handling file play and a player. The device comprises a parameter processing module used for acquiring the play information of at least two to-be-played files and sending the information to the player; a first acquiring module used for acquiring the first corresponding relation between each of the at least two to-be-played files and the time segment of the total play time and the time migration of each to-be-played file relative to the total play time; a first intercepting module used for intercepting the request of the player and for acquiring data; a first positioning module used for confirming the current played file corresponding to a first time according to the first corresponding relation; a first data reading module used for reading the data corresponding to a second time, namely, the difference between the first time and the first time migration, from the data zone of the current played file; and a first data transmitting module used for transmitting the read data to the player. The invention realizes seamless play.

An AV stream stored on a recording medium is edited in such a manner as to not conflict with a play-only standard format.

When an intermediate portion of a stream file is to be deleted, the original clip AV stream file is divided at a deletion section, and a single ATC is provided for each file. When a play item is to be deleted in an intermediate portion of a playlist, the setting of seamless play with the immediately preceding play item is released in the final play item on the forward side, which is left after deletion is performed, and the setting of seamless play with the immediately preceding play item is released in the clip information file at the beginning on the backward side, which is left after deletion is performed.

The invention discloses multimedia resource playing method and devices. The method includes obtaining a first index file relevant to a first multimedia resource, and a first multimedia resource fragment; performing analyzing and sorting on the first multimedia resource fragment to obtain first multimedia data based on the first index file; and playing the first multimedia data. According to the embodiments, the first multimedia data can be obtained and played by performing the analyzing and sorting on the first multimedia resource fragment based on the first index file relevant to the first multimedia resource, and therefore, seamless playing of the multimedia resources can be achieved, and user experiences can be improved.

The invention relates to an automatic animation playing method and device, a client and a video direct-broadcast system. The method comprises: animation playing triggering data from a server are received; according to the triggering data, pre-played animations with different priority queues are generated automatically; when the pre-played animation belongs to a high-priority-level playing queue, aplaying queue to which a currently played animation is determined; if the currently played animation belongs to a high-priority-level playing queue, the currently played animation is stopped and thepre-played animation is played; and if the currently played animation belongs to a low-priority-level queue, the currently played animation is shielded and the pre-played animation is played. According to the embodiment of the invention, with the automatic animation playing method, the real-time data from the server can be used as a trigger signal to generate different animation effects correspondingly, so that ordered seamless playing of animations with different priority levels is realized; and overlapping among different animations during animation switching is avoided, so that the visual effect is optimized.

The invention discloses a method of playing slicing media files seamlessly and a device of realizing the method. In one embodiment, the method comprises steps that a request of playing the media files is received, and the media files comprise a plurality of slices, and each of the slices comprises independent head part information and independent media information; the head part information of the plurality of slices is parsed; the head part information of the plurality of slices is assembled together to form a synthesized head part information used for reflecting all of the slices of the above mentioned plurality of slices, and the media information of the plurality of slices is assembled together to form a media information flow according to the assembled synthesized head part information; and the spliced media information flow is output. The local slicing media files are seamlessly played on a client of a computer or a smart phone, and the frames of the slicing media files are smoothly projected on a TV set or other displays by for example an AirPlay or a DLNA protocol.

The invention discloses audio processing method and device as well as audio playing method and device. The audio processing method comprises the following steps: setting the size of a segment of timedomain audio data to be cut as the multiple of the size of a selected compressed frame; cutting the time domain audio data according to the size of the segment to obtain a plurality of audio segments,wherein the tail part of the previous audio segment in the audio segments and the front part of the latter audio segment at least have one same frame; and carrying out frequency domain compression tothe audio segments to obtain frequency domain audio data. The invention can improve the waveform accuracy after the audio decompression, can play previous and latter audio segments continuously and ensure that the connecting part is played smoothly.

A source device executing the application can transmit the streaming content to the playback device. The size of the buffer can be changed during the playback of streaming content. To perform the change seamlessly, embodiments can cause the application to provide the streaming content at an increased or decreased rate, depending on how the size of the playback buffer is to be changed. The new buffer size (i.e., smaller or larger amount) can provide improved playback of the streaming content, e.g., based on a latency-reliability tradeoff as determined using various factors (e.g., quality of connection between the devices). The changed rate for providing the streaming content can be achieved by slowing down or speeding up a clock signal that is provided to the application.

The invention discloses a seamless playing method for multiple segments of media streams. The main technical scheme is that: the method comprises the following steps: preparing the next segment of media stream when the previous segment of media stream is played normally; creating another separator for preparing to separate audio data from video data of the next segment of media stream; when the previous segment of media stream is finished, directly replacing the previous separator with the next separator under the condition that a decoder and a renderer are kept running, so that the multiple segments of media streams can be played continuously without any intermittence. By the technical scheme, a feasible scheme of continuously and seamlessly playing the multiple segments of media streams is supplied; and under the condition that a hardware environment of a player is not changed, the performance of the multimedia player and the user experience are improved greatly.

The embodiment of the invention provides a video player control method and device and related equipment. The video player control method comprises the following steps: video clips of a plurality of video sources are respectively loaded into a plurality of video players in advance; wherein one video player in the plurality of video players is a projection player; the other video players are non-projection players; in the process that the projection player plays the video, when it is monitored that the projection player needs to be adjusted to be the non-projection player, the projection playeris adjusted to be the non-projection player, one non-projection player is adjusted to be the projection player, and the adjusted projection player is controlled to start to play the pre-loaded video clip. Compared with the prior art that video clips need to be loaded one by one when a video is played, the seamless playing effect can be presented to a user when videos of a plurality of video sources are played in a web browser by adjusting the video player to play the pre-loaded video clips.

The invention is suitable for the technical field of multimedia, and provides a seamless multimedia file play method, terminal equipment and a storage medium. The method comprises the following stepsof: when a preset instruction is received, obtaining parameter information of a target multimedia file and parameter information of the next multimedia file of the target multimedia file; if the parameter information of the target multimedia file and the parameter information of the next multimedia file accord with a preset requirement, caching data information of the multimedia file and data information of the next multimedia file in a preset cache space; obtaining the data information from the preset cache space in sequence; and decoding and playing the data information. Through the method,the consistency during the switching of multimedia files at present can be improved, and then seamless play is realized.