Patent ID: 9621865
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: G11B,H04N

Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving, at a multimedia receiver, a multimedia content stream; performing an analysis, at the multimedia receiver, of the multimedia content stream to determine whether or not a trickplay feature can be used with the multimedia content stream; presenting, at a display device or a control device, a first graphical indicator to indicate that the trickplay feature is available and a second graphical indicator to indicate that the trickplay feature is not available prior to receiving a user request to activate the trickplay feature, wherein the presentation is made based on the analysis of the received multimedia content stream; and when the trickplay feature cannot be used with the multimedia content stream, presenting, at the display device or the control device, an option to select an identical multimedia content stream from another source where the trickplay feature is available for the identical multimedia content stream, wherein the analysis is based on criteria selected from a group consisting of a source of the multimedia content stream, an encoding format of the multimedia content stream, a transmission of the multimedia content stream, a buffered portion of the multimedia content stream, metadata associated with the multimedia content stream and combinations thereof.