Patent ID: 6944185
Filing Date: 2005-09-13
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for playing media data contained in an unknown type datastream comprising: receiving a datastream having a plurality of packets of data of an unknown type; parsing said datastream to determine said type of said plurality of packets of data in said datastream; selecting a depacketizer from among a plurality of depacketizers based on said determined type of said plurality of packets of data in said datastream, each of said plurality of depacketizers having a handler connected to it, said handler configured to manage frames of data; providing said packets of data to said selected depacketizer, wherein said selected depacketizer assembles said packets of data into frames of data; and providing said frames of data to a handler connected to said selected depacketizer, wherein said handler connected to said selected depacketizer decodes said frames of data into media data, and said handler connected to said selected depacketizer playing said media data.