公开(公告)号：BR9501428A

公开(公告)日：1995-11-07

申请号：BR9501428

申请日：1995-04-04

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： CHEN MING-SYAN ,  KANDLUR DILIP DINKAR ,  YOU PHILIP SHI-LUNG

IPC: H04N5/76 ,  H04N3/30 ,  H04N5/93 ,  H04N7/173 ,  H04N7/26 ,  H04N21/2312 ,  H04N21/2387 ,  H04N21/472 ,  H04N3/36

Abstract: A system and method for performing variable speed scanning or browsing, wherein a user controls the playout speed of a movie, which does not require additional disk or network bandwidth resources. In a preferred embodiment, the method provides for scanning operations for an MPEG video stream. The method satisfies the constraints of the MPEG decoder (in the users set-top box) and require a minimum of additional system resources. The embodiments of the present invention include (a) a storage method, (b1) a segment sampling method, (b2) a segment placement method, and (c) a playout method, where (b1) and (b2) are two alternatives for segment selection. Thus, two sets of solutions are provided to support vriable speed scanning in a disk-array-based video server: One using (a), (b1) and (c), and the other using (a), (b2) and (c).