Patent ID: 8806051

Claim:
A multimedia file sharing method, comprising: establishing a virtual multimedia file system at a sharing device; performing, by the virtual multimedia file system, a multimedia file transmission training process, to create a multimedia transmission training file, wherein the multimedia transmission training file comprises a plurality of different settings of slice sizes and read sequences for a plurality of different software multimedia players and different multimedia file formats; when a first multimedia file is to be shared, generating a corresponding metafile according to the multimedia transmission training file and slicing the first multimedia file into a plurality of slices according to the setting of the slice size corresponding to the multimedia file format of the first multimedia file; and transferring the metafile to each one or more shared devices so as to enable the one or more shared devices to sequentially obtain the plurality of slices of the first multimedia file according to the setting of the read sequence corresponding to the software multimedia player of each one or more shared devices.