Patent ID: 8763053

Claim:
A method for integrating standard play tracks and trick play tracks into a single file, comprising: dividing a video into a plurality of extents; generating an extent map identifying video data and extent descriptors associated with each of the plurality of extents, each of the extent descriptors including a video identifier, an extent number, and a total number of extents that comprise the video; grouping the plurality of extents in groups of four to form a plurality of stripe groups, the plurality of stripe groups forming stripe blocks when stripped across a disk array; and storing each of the stripe blocks into a plurality of segments of video information, each of the plurality of segments including: a first number of standard play tracks comprising a plurality of stripe blocks of standard play track data, the standard play tracks having a standard play rate, a second number of trick play tracks, the first number of the standard play tracks and the second number of the trick play tracks defining a ratio of the standard play rate to a trick play rate such that the trick play rate is greater than the standard play rate, the ratio also being the ratio of the plurality of stripe blocks of standard play track data to stripe blocks of trick play track data, each segment of standard play blocks and trick play blocks is striped across a disk array before another segment is striped across the disk array.