Patent ID: 8837921

Claim:
A method for providing scene switching in a video playback device, wherein the video playback device includes one or more buffers coupled to a decoder via a selector, the method comprising: during playback of a video production on a storage medium being read by the video playback device, obtaining two or more encoded video streams that were stored on the storage medium being read by the video playback device, the two or more video streams including different angles for the video production, wherein the two or more video streams include different angle identifiers that are used to identify which angle is associated with respective streams in the two or more video streams; storing the two or more encoded video streams into the one or more buffers using corresponding angle identifiers, wherein one of the two or more encoded video streams for a first angle is being decoded and output by the video playback device for display; accepting a signal from an input device to select a second angle for a second one of the two or more video streams; using the selector to direct the second of the two or more video streams for the second angle to the decoder; and increasing a data transfer rate between a track buffer and a demultiplexer in response to a new angle request.