METHOD FOR PLAYING BACK LIVE VIDEO AND DEVICE

• US 20160227258A1
• Filed: 09/12/2014
• Published: 08/04/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/13/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Original Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Inventors: ZHANG, Chun
• Application Number:
  US15/021,379
• Publication Number:
  US 20160227258A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/765 intermediate
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2181 comprising remotely distributed storage units, e.g. when movies are replicated over a plurality of video servers distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS], H04L67/1097
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2183 Cache memory caches in web servers or browsers G06F16/9574; intermediate storage and caching in data networks H04L67/568
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2187 Live feed
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23106 involving caching operations prefetching while addressing of a memory level in which the access to the desired data or data block requires associative addressing means within memory systems or architectures G06F12/0862; caching at an intermediate stage in a data network H04L67/568
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2393 involving handling client requests scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests H04L67/60
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/26258 for generating a list of items to be played back in a given order, e.g. playlist, or scheduling item distribution according to such list retrieval of multimedia data based on playlists G06F16/40
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47217 for controlling playback functions for recorded or on-demand content, e.g. using progress bars, mode or play-point indicators or bookmarks specific graphical features in visual interfaces H04N21/4312
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8455 involving pointers to the content, e.g. pointers to the I-frames of the video stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8456 by decomposing the content in the time domain, e.g. in time segments

Abstract

Disclosure is a method for playing back live video. The method includes: receiving real-time video fragment data of a video; storing the real-time video fragment data into a cache and a file system respectively; obtaining index information of all the real-time video fragments in a predetermined playing back time period before the current time; generating an index file according to the index information, sending the index file to a client, and feeding back a real-time video fragment to the client according to the playback request of the client. The device for playing back live video is also disclosed. The method and the device for playing back live video can realize play back the live video at any time period, and a timeliness of playing back live video is improved.

Claims

1. A method for playing back live video, comprising:

receiving real-time video fragment data of a video;

storing the real-time video fragment data into a cache and a file system respectively;

querying the cache and the file system to obtain index information of all the real-time video fragments in a predetermined playing back time period before the current time;

generating an index file according to the index information, and sending the index file to a client, wherein the index file is configured to make the client to display a playback progress bar on the client and to receive a playback request of a user through the playback progress bar; and

feeding back a corresponding real-time video fragment to the client according to the playback request of the client.

2. The method for playing back live video according to claim 1, wherein the step of storing the real-time video fragment data into a cache and a file system respectively comprises:

sequencing multiple real-time video fragment data according to an order of an creation time, storing the multiple real-time video fragment in a memory, and packaging a predetermined number of real-time video fragment data into a video file to be stored the video file in the distributed file system.

3. The method for playing back live video according to claim 2, wherein the step of querying the cache and the file system to obtain index information of all the real-time video fragments in a predetermined playing back time period before the current time comprises:

querying the cache to obtain the index information of all the real-time video fragment data from the cache;

periodically requesting the index information of all the real-time video fragment data in the distributed file system except for the real-time video fragment data stored in the cache in a predetermined playing back time period before the current time.

4. The method for playing back live video according to claim 3, further comprising:

if the index information of the cache and the index information of the distributed file system being pointed at the same real-time video fragment data overlappingly, obtaining the real-time video fragment data according to the index information of the cache.

5. The method for playing back live video according to claim 2, before the step of storing the real-time video fragment data into a cache and a file system respectively, the method further comprising:

using an internal index to mark starting time, end time, an offset and data length of each real-time video fragment in the video fragment, and generating corresponding index information for each real-time video fragment of the video file.

6. A device for playing back live video, comprising:

a receiving module configured to receive real-time video fragment data of a video;

a storing module configured to store the real-time video fragment data received by the receiving module into a cache and a file system respectively;

an obtaining module configured to query the cache and the file system to obtain index information of all real-time video fragments in a predetermined playing back time period before the current time;

a generating module configured to generate an index file according to the index information;

a sending module configured to send the index file generated by the generating module to a client, wherein the index file is configured to make the client to display a playback progress bar on the client, and to receive a playback request of a user through the playback progress bar;

the sending module further configured to feed back a corresponding real-time video fragment to the client according to the playback request of the client.

7. The device for playing back live video according to claim 6, further comprising:

a sequencing module configured sequence multiple real-time video fragment data according to an order of an creation time;

the storing module further configured to store the multiple real-time video fragment data sequenced by the sequencing module in a memory, and package a predetermined number of real-time video fragment data into a video file to be stored in the distributed file system.

8. The device for playing back live video according to claim 6, wherein the obtaining module is further configured to query the cache to obtain the index information of all the real-time video fragment data from the cache;

the obtaining module is further configured to periodically request the index information of all the real-time video fragment data in the distributed file system except for the real-time video fragment data stored in the cache in a predetermined playing back time period before the current time from the distributed file system.

9. The device for playing back live video according to claim 6, wherein the obtaining module is further configured to obtain the real-time video fragment data according to the index information of the cache, when the index information of the cache and the index information of the distributed file system are pointed at the same real-time video fragment data overlappingly.

10. The device for playing back live video according to claim 6, wherein the generating module is further configured to mark starting time, end time, an offset and data length of each real-time video fragment in the video fragment, and generate corresponding index information for each real-time video fragment of the video file.

11. The device for playing back live video according to claim 7, wherein the generating module is further configured to mark starting time, end time, an offset and data length of each real-time video fragment in the video fragment, and generate corresponding index information for each real-time video fragment of the video file.

12. The device for playing back live video according to claim 8, wherein the generating module is further configured to mark starting time, end time, an offset and data length of each real-time video fragment in the video fragment, and generate corresponding index information for each real-time video fragment of the video file.

13. The device for playing back live video according to claim 9, wherein the generating module is further configured to mark starting time, end time, an offset and data length of each real-time video fragment in the video fragment, and generate corresponding index information for each real-time video fragment of the video file.