Patent ID: 9565225
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: G11B,H04L,H04N

Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving, at a media server, first input from a computing device, wherein the first input corresponds to selection of a first media player associated with a first output stream format; in response to the first input, sending a first stream preview in accordance with the first output stream format to the computing device; receiving, at the media server, second input from the computing device, wherein the second input corresponds to selection of a second media player that is different from the first media player, wherein the second media player is associated with a second output stream format that is different from the first output stream format; and in response to the second input, sending a second stream preview in accordance with the second output stream format to the computing device, wherein the first output stream format and the second output stream format differ from each other with respect to at least one of streaming protocol, bitrate, frame resolution, frame rate, key frame interval, audio encoding, video encoding, or number of audio channels.