Patent ID: 8644675

Claim:
A method for use in providing supplemental content to be played back in cooperation with a portable storage medium through a playback device that conforms to a fixed length content framework, the method comprising: retrieving supplemental content associated with a portable storage medium distributed to be played back by a playback device; accessing a predefined clip template; processing the supplemental content in accordance with the predefined clip template; and generating a plurality of clips of supplemental content in accordance with the predefined clip template, such that the plurality of clips of supplemental content have a playback length that is a fraction of a playback length of the supplemental content; wherein the generating the plurality of clips comprises: determining whether a first clip is to terminate with a closed Group of Pictures (GOP); and creating a closed GOP to terminate the first clip; wherein the creating the closed GOP comprises: identifying a split point between a first GOP to be within the first clip and a second subsequent GOP that is to be in a subsequent clip; and duplicating one or more audio packets beyond the split point and in the second GOP into the first GOP.