Patent ID: 9628741
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving, at a content server from a media device, a request for media content at a first playback rate that is different from a second playback rate of the media content available to the content server; identifying a first audio portion and a corresponding first video portion of the media content available to the content server based on a first audio characteristic; modifying the first audio portion and the first video portion to correspond to a third playback rate to generate a first modified audio portion and a first modified video portion, wherein the third playback rate is different than the first playback rate and is different than the second playback rate, and wherein the first audio portion is modified by deleting a first frame of the first audio portion and a second frame of the first audio portion, wherein the first frame and the second frame are located between a third frame of the first audio portion and a fourth frame of the first audio portion; and interpolating a fifth frame between the third frame and the fourth frame to smooth a transition between the third frame and the fourth frame; generating modified audio data corresponding to the first playback rate based on the first modified audio portion; generating modified video data corresponding to the first playback rate based on the first modified video portion; producing, at the content server in response to the request, modified media content corresponding to the first playback rate based on the modified audio data and the modified video data, wherein the third playback rate is selected so that the modified media content has the first playback rate; and sending the modified media content from the content server to the media device via a content distribution network.