Multimedia Content Distribution via Disc-Server Hybrid Storage
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current technologies limit the ability of non-professionals to create and distribute multimedia content effectively, as they lack efficient tools for managing and integrating audiovisual clips across multiple platforms, including optical discs and servers, for seamless playback with internet connectivity.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for producing multimedia content that allows users to import, edit, and distribute audiovisual clips across both optical discs and servers, using a computer interface to generate instructional content that enables seamless playback on devices with internet connectivity, such as BD-Live players, by associating clips with servers and burning non-selected clips onto discs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multimedia content is stored entirely on optical discs, then content distribution is achieved, but storage capacity is limited and content cannot be easily updated
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides multimedia content into segments stored on optical discs and segments stored on internet servers. The optical disc contains a playlist file that references both local content and remote server content, allowing the system to leverage the update capability of servers while maintaining the portability and offline accessibility of discs.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a playlist file as an intermediary that bridges optical disc content and internet server content. This playlist file contains metadata and references that enable the playback device to retrieve additional content from servers while playing back content from the optical disc, thus resolving the contradiction between disc storage limitations and update requirements.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multimedia content is distributed across multiple platforms (optical discs and servers), then content accessibility is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal playback system where a single optical disc with a playlist file can function across multiple platforms - playing back content directly from the disc, retrieving additional content from internet servers, or combining both. The playlist file format is designed to be universally compatible with various playback devices that have internet connectivity capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses metadata copying and referencing mechanisms where the playlist file contains simplified references to server content rather than full content copies. This allows the system to maintain complex multi-platform functionality while keeping the optical disc content relatively simple and manageable.
3Quantity of substance
If large multimedia files are stored on servers, then storage capacity requirements are reduced locally, but internet connectivity is required for playback
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by storing essential playlist metadata and reference information locally on the optical disc, while larger media files can be stored remotely on servers. This allows the critical playback structure to be available offline on the disc while leveraging server storage for bulk content, thus reducing local storage requirements without completely sacrificing playback reliability.
Data Source
AI summary
A computer readable medium and method for production of multimedia content are provided. In this regard, one embodiment of such a computer readable medium, among others, can be broadly summarized as including instructions executable by a computer that control the computer to perform importing a source content; receiving a selection of a first portion of the imported source content; generating an instructional content, wherein the instructional content comprises a first server identifying content and a relation between the first portion of the imported source content and a second portion of the imported source content; exporting the first portion of the imported source content for storage as at least a portion of a first server multimedia content on a first server; and burning, on an optical disc, the second portion of the imported source content and the instructional content as at least a portion of an optical disc multimedia content.