Abstract: An optical disc player for playback of a multimedia file stored in an optical disc is disclosed. The optical disc player includes a front-end loader and a back-end playback engine. The front-end loader, including a first data buffer, reads data from the optical disc and stores the read data in the first data buffer when the amount of data stored in the first data buffer is less than a first threshold. The back-end playback engine receives the data from the first data buffer and plays a multimedia segment corresponding to the received data. The front-end loader increases the first threshold of the first data buffer before a time-consuming servo behavior occurs.

Abstract: Methods and systems for recording and searching data in a storage are disclosed. The method includes: receiving a digital data stream comprising a plurality of frames; encoding the frames of the digital data stream; grouping the encoded frames into a plurality of video frame units (VFUs), wherein each VFU has the same playback duration; and storing each VFU in a separate block in the storage. A data address corresponding to each VFU may be calculated or searched from a look-up table by a time-shift parameter when playing back the VFU stored in the storage.