Patent ID: 8582664

Claim:
A method of creating a video sequence representative of a digital video sequence, wherein the digital video sequence is coded in a differential coding format, said digital video sequence comprising a plurality of groups of pictures (GOPs), each group of pictures being adapted to be decoded independently, the method comprising the following steps: dividing the digital video sequence into a plurality of video sections, and for at least one of said video sections of the digital video sequence: selecting, from the video section, at least one video portion comprising a plurality of images, wherein selecting said at least one video portion comprises selecting a portion of the video from the video section and modifying the start and end of the selected portion in order to include a whole number of groups of pictures (GOPs); determining a video segment, taking into account coding of the video sequence, comprising said at least one selected video portion, associating with the determined video segment at least one item of location information for location within the digital video sequence of said at least one video portion included in the segment, and adding the determined segment to the video sequence representative of the digital video sequence.