Abstract: A seamless social multimedia streaming server and service is disclosed. The server receives multiple multimedia streams that are asynchronous, semi-synchronous or synchronous. The communications channels that the streams are on may be unidirectional, bidirectional or multicast. A multimedia integrator receives streams and integrates the different multimedia into an integrated multimedia stream which is rendered on a client-side device. Because multimedia streams may be integrated onto a single integrated stream, user generated content, such as texts and commentary, may be rendered while viewing other streamed multimedia, such as video. In this way, users that are geographically remote to each other, may communally participate in a multimedia experience via substantively real-time communications. Techniques to interleave multimedia, synchronize multimedia, and to modify multimedia are also disclosed.

Abstract: A seamless social multimedia streaming server and service is disclosed. The server receives multiple multimedia streams that are asynchronous, semi-synchronous or synchronous. The communications channels that the streams are on may be unidirectional, bidirectional or multicast. A multimedia integrator receives streams and integrates the different multimedia into an integrated multimedia stream which is rendered on a client-side device. Because multimedia streams may be integrated onto a single integrated stream, user generated content, such as texts and commentary, may be rendered while viewing other streamed multimedia, such as video. In this way, users that are geographically remote to each other, may communally participate in a multimedia experience via substantively real-time communications. Techniques to interleave multimedia, synchronize multimedia, and to modify multimedia are also disclosed.