Patent ID: 8582954

Claim:
A media player comprising: a media reader to read media content from a recording medium inserted into the media reader; a media analysis component to identify portions of the recording medium as being valid or invalid by, walking linked data segments on the recording medium, wherein the walking comprises, emulating operation of a standard media player to identify a branch within the linked data segments, evaluating display characteristics of a menu item of the branch to determine whether the menu item is valid, and marking a portion of the recording medium corresponding to the branch as being valid in response to determining that the menu item is valid and marking the portion of the recording medium as being invalid in response to determining that the menu item is invalid; an archival component to store the media content from portions of the recording medium that are marked as being valid in a storage medium and to skip portions of the recording medium that are marked as being invalid; and a playback component to play back the media content of the portions of the recording medium that are marked as being valid from the storage medium concurrently with the media analysis component identifying the portions of the recording medium and the archival component storing the media content.