Patent ID: 8869203

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: live source video inputs configured to receive live source video streams; video outputs configured to provide live output video streams to a receiver at a remote client, the live output video streams configured according to a channel template design; a processor configured to control multiplexing of the live source video streams to provide master control of the live source video inputs and video outputs; and a control input configured to receive user commands from the remote client regarding the live output video streams, wherein the processor is further configured to transcode at least some of the live source video streams into low data rate live output video streams, and key-length-value metadata of the live source video streams is preserved during the transcoding, and wherein the video outputs are further configured to provide the low data rate live output video streams and a high data rate live output video stream to the receiver at the remote client, wherein the processor is configured to be responsive to a user request command of the user commands provided in a signal sent from a transmitter of the remote client, the user request command comprises a selection of at least one of the live output video streams as a video of interest, and the processor is configured to change only the video of interest from a transcoded low data rate live output video stream to a high data rate live output video stream, and the unselected live output video streams are transcoded low data rate live output video streams.