System and method for automatically creating a media archive from content on a recording medium

• US 8,600,950 B2
• Filed: 03/07/2012
• Issued: 12/03/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Watson, David J., Moore, John, Barrett, Phillip L., Hamilton, Nicole A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Jalil, Neveen Abel
• Assistant Examiner(s): BUCKINGHAM, KELLYE DEE
• Application Number:
  US13/414,563
• Publication Number:
  US 20120166948A1
• Time in Patent Office: 636 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 707/665
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/775 between a recording apparatus and a television receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/781 on disks or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/85 on discs or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/907 using static stores, e.g. storage tubes or semiconductor memories H04N5/91 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal

Abstract

A media player for creating a media archive may include a media reader to read media content from a recording medium inserted into the media reader. The media player may also include an archival component to store the media content in a storage medium. In one embodiment, the media player includes a playback component to play back the media content from the storage medium concurrently with the storage of the media content by the archival component.

Claims

1. A media player for automatically creating a media archive in a storage medium, comprising:

a media reader to read media content from a recording medium;

a media analysis component to walk one or more branches of the recording medium to determine a layout of the recording medium and which portions of the recording medium contain valid media content;

an archival component to store in the storage medium the valid media content read from the recording medium and to track which portions of the media content are valid and have been stored in the storage medium, wherein the storage medium is separate from the recording medium;

a playback component to play back a requested portion of the media content stored in the storage medium while the archival component continues the archival storing of other portions of the media content in the storage medium,

wherein, in response to a request to play the requested portion of the media content, the archival component is to;

based on the tracking of portions of the media content that have been stored in the storage medium, determine whether the requested portion of the media content has been stored in the storage medium; and

based on a determination that the requested portion is not stored in the storage medium, instruct the media reader to skip to the requested portion of the recording medium such that the archival component can store the requested portion of media content to the storage medium for play back from the storage medium by the playback component.

2. The media player of claim 1, further comprising a metadata component to retrieve metadata related to the media content from a metadata provider to store the metadata in the storage medium.

3. The media player of claim 2, wherein the metadata component is to generate a media content item identifier and retrieve the metadata from the metadata provider using the media content item identifier.

4. The media player of claim 2, wherein the metadata component is to provide a search interface through which one or more metadata search terms may be submitted, and wherein the metadata search interface is to return one or more content items having metadata conforming to the submitted search terms.

5. The media player of claim 2, further comprising a user interface component to display a listing of one or more content items available on the storage medium, and wherein each entry in the listing comprises one or more metadata items associated with a respective content item.

6. The media player of claim 5, wherein the metadata associated with the content item comprises a title of the content item.

7. The media player of claim 5, wherein the one or more metadata items associated with the content item comprises a genre of the content item.

8. The media player of claim 5, wherein the one or more metadata items associated with the content item comprises a graphical asset.

9. The media player of claim 5, wherein the user interface includes a single play and save input to produce a single command for playing back and recording the media content.

10. The media player of claim 1, wherein the recording medium is a digital versatile disc.

11. The media player of claim 1, wherein the archival component is to track which portions of the media content have been stored on the storage medium using a data allocation map (DAM) comprising a plurality of indicators, wherein each of the DAM indicators indicates whether a respective portion of the media content has been stored on the storage medium.

12. The media player of claim 11, wherein the playback component navigates from a first location in the media content to a second location in the media content, and wherein the playback component is to determine whether the second location in the media content has been stored in the storage medium using the DAM.

13. The media player of claim 1, further comprising a transcoder to transcode the media content read from the recording medium from a first encoding format into a second encoding format, and wherein the archival component stores the media content in the storage medium in the second encoding format.

14. The media player of claim 13, wherein the second encoding format has a higher compression ratio than the first encoding format.

15. The media player of claim 14, wherein the first encoding format is not compatible with a hardware decoder within the media player, and wherein the second encoding format is compatible with the hardware decoder.

16. The media player of claim 13, wherein the first encoding format is an encrypted format, and wherein the second encoding format is a decrypted format.

17. The media player of claim 13, wherein the playback component transmits media content for display on a remote display device over a network.

18. The device of claim 14, wherein the transcoder is configured to transcode the media content stored on the storage medium into a streaming encoding format.

19. The device of claim 13, wherein the second encoding format is a scalable encoding format.

20. A method for automatically creating a media archive in a storage medium, comprising:

reading media content from a recording medium;

walking one or more branches of the recording medium to determine a layout of the recording medium and which portions of the recording medium contain valid media content;

archiving the media content in the storage medium, wherein archiving comprises maintaining a data allocation map (DAM) comprising a plurality of indicators to track which portions of the media content are valid and have been stored in the storage medium, each indicating whether a respective portion of the media content has been archived on the storage medium, wherein the storage medium is separate from the recording medium;

in response to a request to play a requested portion of the media content;

based on the tracking of portions of the media content that have been stored in the storage medium, determining whether the requested portion of the media content has been stored in the storage medium;

based on a determination that the requested portion is not stored in the storage medium, skipping to the requested portion of the recording medium and storing the requested portion of the media content to the storage medium for play back from the storage medium; and

playing back the requested portion of the media content from the storage medium while archiving other portions of the media content in the storage medium.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein reading, archiving, and playing back the media content commence in response to receiving a single command to archive and play back the media content.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the single command is invoked by selection of a specifically designated single input on a user interface.

23. The method of claim 21, wherein the single command to initiate the concurrent archival and playback comprises the recording medium being inserted into the media reader.

24. The method of claim 20, further comprising:

generating a content item identifier to identify the media content read from the recording medium;

submitting a request for metadata to a metadata provider, the request comprising the content item identifier;

receiving metadata from the metadata provider; and

storing the metadata in the storage medium.

25. The method of claim 20, further comprising transcoding the media content read from the recording medium from a first encoding format into a different, second encoding format, wherein the media content is archived on the storage medium in the second encoding format.

26. The method of claim 20, further comprising streaming the media content read from the storage medium to a remote display device over a network.

27. The method of claim 20, further comprising generating the data allocation map for the media content to track which portions of the media content on the recording medium have been archived on the storage medium.

28. The method of claim 27, further comprising updating the data allocation map responsive to archiving a portion of the media content read from the recording medium on the storage medium.

29. A computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions to cause a media player to perform operations for automatically creating a media archive in a storage medium, the operations comprising:

receiving a single command to play back and archive media content stored on a recording medium;

reading the media content from the recording medium;

archiving the media content in the storage medium, wherein the storage medium is separate from the recording medium, including;

avoiding a media obfuscation scheme by walking one or more branches within the media content; and

tracking which portions of the media content have been stored in the storage medium;

based on the tracking of portions of the media content that have been stored in the storage medium, determining whether a requested portion of the media content has been stored in the storage medium;

based on a determination that the requested portion is not stored in the storage medium, skipping to the requested portion of the recording medium and storing the requested portion of the media content to the storage medium for play back from the storage medium; and

playing back on a display the requested portion of the media content from the storage medium, wherein the archiving and the playing back both commence in response to the single command.