Abstract: An apparatus for communicating a video having a central processing unit and a communications circuit in communication with a source and destination computer is provided A memory coupled to the central processing unit stores a lookup table of accounts and a router module that controls the communications circuit by (i) reading an address of each of a plurality of packets received by the communications circuit, where the packets store an encoded video containing at least one embedded IP address and where the packets each contain a destination address, and (ii) by routing the packets to a destination computer based on the destination address. The memory further has a media analyzer module with instructions for identifying a value of the at least one embedded IP address in the packets. The memory further has an accounting module for charging an account in the lookup table for the encoded video.

Abstract: An apparatus for encoding videos having a central processing unit and a memory, coupled to the central processing unit, is provided. The memory has an Internet protocol (IP) address pool having IP addresses and a video encoding module. The video encoding module has instructions for obtaining a video source having a plurality of sequential frames. The video encoding module further has instructions for assigning select frames in the plurality of sequential frames with at least one IP address from the IP address pool, thereby forming an encoded video containing at least one embedded IP address. The video encoding module further has instructions for removing the at least one IP address from the IP address pool that is in the encoded video and instructions for storing the encoded video.