Patent ID: 8600950
Filing Date: 2013-12-03
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A media player for automatically creating a media archive in a storage medium, comprising: a media reader to read media content from a recording medium; a media analysis component to walk one or more branches of the recording medium to determine a layout of the recording medium and which portions of the recording medium contain valid media content; an archival component to store in the storage medium the valid media content read from the recording medium and to track which portions of the media content are valid and have been stored in the storage medium, wherein the storage medium is separate from the recording medium; a playback component to play back a requested portion of the media content stored in the storage medium while the archival component continues the archival storing of other portions of the media content in the storage medium, wherein, in response to a request to play the requested portion of the media content, the archival component is to: