Patent ID: 8364024
Filing Date: 2013-01-29
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for communication, the method comprising: receiving in a media player, a sequence of video frames and corresponding audio content from a media source, at least some frames of the sequence of video frames are dependent on other frames of the sequence and wherein frame dependencies for video frames within the sequence of video frames are limited to a predetermined number of frames that respective frames reference when encoding the video frames within the sequence of video frames, and wherein respective video frames of the sequence of video frames have been assigned a priority according to the number of frames that a respective video frame references for a purpose of frame estimation, a first portion of said sequence of video frames including higher priority frames comprising relatively fewer reference frame dependencies, a second portion of said sequence of video frames including lower priority frames comprising relatively more reference frame dependencies; processing the first portion of said sequence of video frames via a first protocol stack and the second portion of said sequence of video frames via a second protocol stack; applying a more robust processing to said first portion of said sequence of video frames than to said second portion of said sequence of video frames in said media player; and generating a local sequence of video frames from said processed first portion of said sequence of video frames and said second portion of said sequence of video frames.