Review program recording, playback method, server, client and system

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method, a server, a client and a system for recording and playing a streaming media replay program. The playing method comprises: a client obtaining a URI of an index file of a replay program; obtaining the index file of the replay program from a server according to the URI of the index file; parsing the index file, and obtaining a URI of each fragment file corresponding to the replay program from the index file; and according to the URI of the each fragment file, downloading the each fragment file sequentially from the server, and decoding and playing the each fragment file. The present invention implements that a conventional RTSP user of IPTV and an HTTP user of the Internet share a recorded file, so as to implement a replay function, reduce storage resource consumption of a streaming media server, and improve the performance of the server; as far as the operator is concerned, the server side may support an HTTP user of the Internet as long as a standard HTTP server is deployed at the server side, customization is not required, and the cost is reduced.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to the technical field of network multimedia, in particular to a recording and playing method, server, client and system for watching back programs of streaming media. Background technique [0002] With the popularization of broadband network and the development of multimedia technology, the application of streaming media technology is becoming more and more extensive. For example, IPTV (Interactive Personality TV, Interactive Internet Television) is a typical streaming media application. [0003] IPTV is mainly based on RTSP (Real Time Streaming Protocol, real-time streaming protocol) / RTP (Real-time Transport Protocol, real-time transport protocol), in addition to providing users with traditional TV services, it can also provide special functions such as program playback. The so-called playback refers to the real-time recording of live channel programs according to the program schedule, and then playback for users to ord...

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Problems solved by technology

If the above-mentioned IPTV playback program recording method is adopted, it is inconvenient to directly provide it to Internet users.

However, if you record special playback programs for Internet users separately, such as recording live streams into individual files according to the start and end time of the program list, on the one hand, due to separate recording, two copies of storage space will be occupied, and two copies will be consumed. storage capacity, wasting resources; on the other hand, if you need to adjust the start and end time of watching the program after the recording is completed, the operation is more troublesome

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