Patent ID: 8059941

Claim:
A method for synchronous multiple client service by one DVD player, the method comprises: providing, by the one DVD player, a plurality of output interfaces corresponding to a plurality of client terminals, respectively; providing a selection panel for reception of sets of playback parameters from the client terminals, wherein each client terminal issues one set of the sets of playback parameters and each set of playback parameters provides: a video option for selecting view angles; an audio option for selecting spoken languages; a subtitle option for selecting subtitle languages; decrypting an original stream into a video stream, an audio stream and a subtitle stream; decoding the video stream into video sub-streams of different view angles, the audio stream into audio sub-streams of various languages, and the subtitle stream into subtitle sub-streams of various languages; and generating a plurality of output streams to be transmitted to the client terminals, respectively, via the corresponding output interfaces, wherein each output stream is generated by combining one of the video sub-streams, one of the audio sub-streams and one of the subtitle sub-streams based on the set of playback parameters issued from the corresponding client terminal and entered via the selection panel.