System and method for efficiently storing and processing multimedia content
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1. A method comprising:
- receiving a broadcast signal containing a plurality of encrypted multimedia channels;
storing said encrypted multimedia channels in a first hard drive partition; and
decrypting one or more of said encrypted multimedia channels to generate one or more decrypted multimedia channels; and
storing said decrypted multimedia channels to a second hard drive partition.
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Abstract
A method is described comprising: receiving a broadcast signal containing a plurality of encrypted multimedia channels; storing the encrypted multimedia channels in a first hard drive partition; and decrypting one or more of the encrypted multimedia channels to generate one or more decrypted multimedia channels; and storing the decrypted multimedia channels to a second hard drive partition.
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1. A method comprising:
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receiving a broadcast signal containing a plurality of encrypted multimedia channels;
storing said encrypted multimedia channels in a first hard drive partition; and
decrypting one or more of said encrypted multimedia channels to generate one or more decrypted multimedia channels; and
storing said decrypted multimedia channels to a second hard drive partition. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 32, 36)
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11. A method for reducing seek time while concurrently writing N multimedia channels to a mass storage device comprising:
writing a first amount of multimedia data equivalent to a block from each of said 1 through N multimedia channels to each of a first N consecutive blocks on a first hard drive partition on said mass storage device, respectively. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21)
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18. A method for storing data on a mass storage in a format in which it can be deleted efficiently:
pre-allocating metadata to consecutive blocks on said mass storage device before writing said data.
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22. A system for efficiently storing multimedia content from N multimedia channels comprising:
a block allocation module to interleave multimedia content from each of said multimedia channels in successive blocks on a mass storage device. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35)
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26. An article of manufacture having program code stored thereon which, when executed by a machine, cause said machine to perform the operations of:
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receiving a broadcast signal containing a plurality of encrypted multimedia channels;
storing said encrypted multimedia channels in a first hard drive partition; and
decrypting one or more of said encrypted multimedia channels to generate one or more decrypted multimedia channels; and
storing said decrypted multimedia channels to a second hard drive partition.
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