Method and system for supporting user to play television program and record program simultaneously

Abstract

The embodiment of the invention discloses a digital television system. The digital television system supports the interaction of a digital television and a set top box; a television signal output server of the digital television system is in charge of the output of an original television code stream; a program customized application server of the digital television system manages program channel information; an application server of the digital television system transmits the compressed code stream to the set top box through a video server; and an external storage of the set top box records the program by processing the compressed video code stream. The embodiment of the invention also discloses a method for supporting user to play a television program and record the program simultaneously. Due to the embodiment of the invention, by transmitting the code stream to the external storage of the set top box for storage by using a DSL transmission network, the functions of recording and playing back the program are realized.

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Technical field [0001] The invention relates to the technical field of digital television and television signal transmission, in particular to a system architecture and operation method that supports users to simultaneously play television programs and program recording. Background technique [0002] With the country's vigorous promotion of digital TV and its own unique advantages, the popularity of digital TV is getting higher and higher, and the usage rate of digital TV set-top boxes is also getting higher. Through the digital TV set-top box, digital TV can realize rich business functions and provide users with a variety of more humanized services. [0003] After TV is digitized, software technology occupies a more important position in digital TV technology. In addition to the hardware implementation of audio and video decoding, it includes the reproduction of TV content, the realization of the operation interface, the realization of the data broadcasting service, and the inter...

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[0007] The present invention provides a system and method for supporting users to play TV programs and program recording at the same time, which can combine the characteristics of interactive Internet TV and digital TV set-top boxes, and firstly solve the problem of difficult storage and display of the original TV code stream recorded by traditional TV programs , and secondly use different communication networks to complete different functions to realize the system and method for simultaneously broadcasting TV programs and program recording, so that users can record TV programs of another channel while watching TV programs of a certain channel

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