Abstract: A system apparatus and method for concurrent delivery of a plurality of video streams comprising one or more transcoders for bitrate reduction and a cache memory to save copies of transcoded segments. When the total outgoing bitrate of the system exceeds a predefined threshold, the system decides which of the video segments to transcode and the magnitude of bitrate reduction. Before assigning a transcoder for the bitrate reduction, the system first checks the cache for saved transcoded segments. If appropriate transcoded segments are not found in cache, the system may assign a transcoder for the video segments designated for bitrate reduction.

Abstract: A system apparatus and method for concurrent delivery of a plurality of video streams comprising one or more transcoders for bitrate reduction and a cache memory to save copies of transcoded segments. When the total outgoing bitrate of the system exceeds a predefined threshold, the system decides which of the video segments to transcode and the magnitude of bitrate reduction. Before assigning a transcoder for the bitrate reduction, the system first checks the cache for saved transcoded segments. If appropriate transcoded segments are not found in cache, the system may assign a transcoder for the video segments designated for bitrate reduction.

Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system for rapid switching between encoded video streams while introducing a reduced amount of additional information during the switch. For example, a method of encoding uncompressed video frames in accordance with embodiments of the invention includes producing a first stream having a first key frame, a second key frame, and a delta frame therebetween; and producing a second stream having said first key frame, said second key frame, and a third key frame therebetween, wherein said third key frame corresponds with said delta frame. Other features are described and claimed.

Abstract: A method and system are presented for producing an audio/video stream with improved video quality for a given bitrate, using non-standard sampling rates while preserving timely playback by the decoder. The method may include sub-sampling according to a duty cycle and/or time-slapping frames in an audio/visual stream.

Abstract: In a combined audio and video encoding system, the encoding system receiving a stream of video samples and a stream of audio samples, the encoding system producing an encoded video stream from the video samples and an encoded audio stream from the audio samples, a method for synchronizing between the encoded video stream and the encoded audio stream, the method including the steps of monitoring the encoded video stream and the encoded audio stream, detecting the amount of video data accumulated from the encoded video stream in a given time period, detecting the amount of audio data accumulated from the encoded audio stream in a given time period, increasing the number of audio samples in the audio stream, when the accumulated amount of video data is greater than the accumulated amount of audio data and decreasing the number of audio samples in the audio stream, when the accumulated amount of audio data is greater than the accumulated amount of video data.