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Dynamic audio track selection for media streaming

  • US 8,954,540 B2
  • Filed: 08/06/2012
  • Issued: 02/10/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A server for communicating a media file via a network, the server comprising:

  • an interface for communicating with the network;

    a memory configured to store the media file; and

    a processor communicatively coupled with the memory and the interface, the processor further configured to cause the server to;

    receive, with the interface, a request for a first segment of the media file, the first segment comprising one of a plurality of separately-addressable segments of the media file;

    determine, based on the request for the first segment of the media file, a starting point and an ending point of the requested first segment of the media file;

    retrieve a first portion of the media file from the memory, wherein;

    the first portion of the media file includes at least the requested first segment of the media file, and the first portion of the media file includes a video component and at least one audio track;

    generate the requested first segment of the media file, wherein;

    the requested first segment of the media file has a single audio track, and the requested first segment of the media file is generated, at least in part, from the first portion of the media file without transcoding; and

    provide, with the interface, the requested first segment of the media file;

    wherein generating the requested first segment of the media file occurs during playback of the media file.

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