Patent ID: 8374113

Claim:
A method comprising: at a central apparatus configured to communicate with one or more access point devices operating in a wireless local area network: receiving one or more multicast video streams each intended for a multicast group of wireless client devices served by one or more of the access point devices; re-encoding the one or more multicast video streams to produce a corresponding one or more wireless-friendly multicast video streams that have a reduced bandwidth from a bandwidth of the received multicast video streams, the one or more wireless-friendly multicast video streams for wireless transmission by access point devices to wireless client devices in the wireless local area network; and sending the one or more wireless-friendly multicast video streams to the one or more access point devices; at the one or more access point devices that receive the one or more wireless-friendly multicast video streams: processing the one or more wireless-friendly multicast video streams depending on conditions in a radio channel used by the access point device; and wirelessly transmitting over the radio channel the one or more wireless-friendly multicast video streams to one or more client devices in a corresponding multicast group.