Patent ID: 7805051

Claim:
A computing device comprising: an interface configured to couple the computing device to a source computing device storing compressed media files in a proprietary format not intended for playback on the computing device, wherein the interface is configured to receive one or more of the compressed media files from the source computing device in the proprietary format; a media decoder for decrypting the compressed media files in the proprietary format into one or more media files in a non-proprietary media format, wherein said decrypting comprises identifying portions of the media files in the proprietary format comprising media content in a compressed media format and extracting the identified portions from the media files in the proprietary format; and a user input device; wherein in response to a predetermined user input received via the user input device, the media decoder is configured to decompress the compressed media data extracted from the media files in the proprietary format to provide an output comprising one or both of a video data stream or an audio data stream.