Patent ID: 8649668

Claim:
A method, comprising: performing, by a video player: receiving an encoding of a time-ordered sequence of video frames from a remote video server over a wide area network; sending to the remote video server an indication of a change to reduce a current frame display rate at the video player for the time-ordered sequence of video frames, the sending configured to be performed over the wide area network; subsequent to said sending, receiving from the remote video server a different encoding of the time-ordered sequence of video frames, the different encoding configured for displaying the time-ordered sequence of video frames on the video player at the reduced frame display rate and at an increased resolution for images contained in the time-ordered sequence of video frames such that a bit rate of the reduced frame display rate is not raised in comparison with a bit rate associated with the current frame display rate and pixel densities of the images contained in the different encoding of the time-ordered sequence are higher than pixel densities of images contained in the encoding of the time-ordered sequence associated with the current frame display rate; and displaying the different encoding of the time-ordered sequence of video frames at the reduced frame display rate and at the increased resolution.