Patent ID: 6919929

Claim:
In a multimedia system, a method of interfacing media, said method comprising the steps of: displaying continuously a first media data type on a display having contiguous lines, said display having a line-to-line correspondence with said first media data type; requesting from a source device a first line of data of a second media data type before a predetermined line of data of said first media data type is displayed; receiving said first line of data into a single first-in-first-out (FIFO) buffer; aligning said first line of data to said first media data type wherein said aligning comprises performing frame rate conversion; mixing said first line of data with said predetermined line of data; displaying said first line of data and said predetermined line of data concurrently on a predetermined line of said display without any interruption in the displaying of said first media data type; and on a line by line basis repeating for a second line of data of said second media type.