Abstract: The configuration of the data link between the multimedia device and a network-ready external host allows the external host for accessing the media files in the multimedia device and performing scheduling recording. By generating the scheduled program list and converting the scheduled program list into program files, the information of scheduled programs from EPG according to scheduling information from the external host end can be converted into a series of media files stored in a hierarchical way for being copied and played by the external host.

Abstract: A data processing method is disclosed. A first stream data including a first part and a second part is received. The second part is processed according to the first part of the first stream data. The processed first stream data is transformed into a second stream data.

Abstract: An apparatus for recording multimedia data includes a removable storage device and a controller. The controller records multimedia data onto the removable storage device without modifying a file system of the removable storage device when the removable storage device having free space is attached and detected. Therefore, no data is flushed into the removable storage device when the removable storage device is removed, and the time-shifting function can be stopped easily.

Abstract: A system for playing back data from a circular buffer is disclosed. The system includes: a buffer, for buffering data, wherein the data is encoded and grouped into Data Units (DUs), each containing an embedded timestamp; a buffer access module, for utilizing a write pointer to record data to the buffer, and for utilizing a read pointer to play back data from the buffer, wherein a DU pointed to by the write pointer corresponds to a current timestamp; and a computing unit, for comparing a timestamp pointed to by the read pointer with the current timestamp, and utilizing the comparison result to determine the validity of playing back data indicated by the read pointer.

Abstract: A method of transitioning from playback of time shifted multimedia data in a time shifted playback mode to playback of live multimedia data in a live playback mode includes buffering data corresponding to the live multimedia data in a buffer; storing data corresponding to the live multimedia data to a storage medium; calculating a next playback data block according to the time shifted playback mode; retrieving data corresponding to the next playback data block from the storage medium if the data corresponding to the next playback data block is available from the storage medium; and retrieving the data corresponding to the next playback data block from the buffer if the data corresponding to the next playback data block is not available from the storage medium but is available from the buffer.

Abstract: The present embodiments provide a program transferring method and an apparatus thereof. The method includes the following steps: selecting a program in a first storage medium; transferring the program from the first storage medium to a second storage medium; and generating a label for identifying the transferring status of the program.

Abstract: The present embodiments provide a storage device and a method of accessing the storage device. The storage device is utilized for storing a plurality of first data and a plurality of second data. Each first data correlates respectively to a second data. The storage device includes a first storage segment and a second storage segment. The first storage segment is divided into a plurality of first storage units for storing the first data. The second storage segment is divided into a plurality of second storage units for storing the second data. The size of each first storage unit is larger than the size of each second storage unit, and the size of each first data is larger than the size of its correlating second data.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a removable medium access method and related apparatus, and in particular relates to a removable medium access method and related apparatus in an optical disc drive. A removable medium access method for accessing a removable medium in an optical disc drive is provided. The removable medium access method comprises: reading the multimedia data from the removable medium; generating first data; generating a user file wherein the user file comprises at least one set of representation data; writing back the user file and the first data to the removable medium.

Abstract: A method for automatically executing at least a command set to communicate between a host and at least a peripheral device having registers of different sizes, the host comprising a storage device, a host processor, a host controller, and a command interpreter having no additional processor aid, the method comprising: utilizing the host processor to set up the command set in the storage device; utilizing the host processor to trigger the command interpreter to directly read the command set from the storage device; and utilizing the command interpreter to execute the command set for controlling the host controller to access the registers of the peripheral devices.

Abstract: A data transferring system comprises a host controller including an ATA bus host interface, a first data storage device, a second data storage device, and a switch. The switch directs a set of host chip-selection signals from the ATA bus host interface to a first set of chip-selection signal or to a second set of chip-selection signal, and these connect to the first and the second data storage device. When the processing priority of the second data storage device is higher than the processing priority of the first data storage device, when the host controller does not assert the chip-selection signals, and when the data storage device is not in the direct memory access (DMA) mode, the host controller controls the switch to connect to another set of chip-selection signals according to a channel selection signal after the host controller issues a first command to the first data storage device.