Patent ID: 8793282

Claim:
A media device for providing one or more media files for a display using a plurality of metadata clips, wherein each of the plurality of metadata clips references a referenced source media from the one or more media files, a referenced start position in the referenced source media, and a referenced end position in the referenced source media, the media device comprising: a hardware processor configured to: determine at least one capability of a client; determine a playlist including a listing of at least two metadata clips and associated attributes corresponding to source quality information and popularity of the referenced source media for each of the at least two metadata clips, from the plurality of metadata clips using the at least one capability of the client, wherein the playlist references a video stream, a separate audio stream and the associated attributes; and process the playlist without generating a new media file to retrieve from each of the at least two metadata clips in the playlist the referenced source media, the referenced start position, and the referenced stop position, for a playback to begin at the referenced start position and end at the referenced end position, wherein the processing includes transitional effects between the at least two metadata clips retrieved in the playlist, wherein a more popular of the at least two metadata clips is sequenced in the playlist first if an individual selection is not made; wherein the playlist further includes one or more event behaviors, and wherein each of the one or more event behaviors have one or more attached conditions; wherein the hardware processor is configured to process the playlist while implementing the one or more event behaviors, and wherein the hardware processor is configured to monitor for a completion of the one or more attached conditions before implementing the one or more event behaviors.