Patent ID: 7555715

Claim:
A method for use in converting multimedia content, comprising: receiving media data in a first format; initiating a first conversion of the media data at the first format to a second converted format; identifying parameters dictating the conversion to the second converted format; determining a quality of at least a first portion of the media data in the second converted format; adjusting a set of parameters from the identified parameters; re-converting at least the first portion of the media data at the first format to the second converted format while applying the set of adjusted parameters producing at least a first portion of an adjusted media data in the second converted format; determining whether the first portion of the adjusted media data in the second converted format has a quality that exceeds the quality of the first portion of the media data in the second converted format; recording the parameters, where the recording the parameters comprises recording the set of parameters when the first portion of the adjusted media data in the second converted format has a quality that exceeds the quality of the first portion of the media data in the second converted format; and distributing the recorded parameters to remote systems such that the parameters at least in part control the remote system during a conversion of the media data to the second converted format.