Patent ID: 8914835

Claim:
A method for transporting encoded video data, the method comprising: receiving, by a source video device, encoded video data comprising a number of video segments; forming a first presentation comprising a number of video files, each of the video files corresponding to a respective one of the video segments; forming a second, different presentation comprising the number of video files, each of the video files of the second presentation corresponding to a respective one of the video segments, such that the video files of the second presentation are temporally aligned with the video files of the first presentation; signaling information in a media presentation description (MPD) indicative of a first rendering capability for the first presentation, a first decoding capability for the first presentation, a first average bitrate for the first presentation, a second rendering capability for the second presentation, a second decoding capability for the second presentation, a second average bitrate for the second presentation, file sizes of the video files in the first presentation, file sizes of the video files in the second presentation, and information indicating that the video files of the first presentation are temporally aligned with the video files of the second presentation; and in response to a request for a temporal section of the video data and that specifies the first presentation or the second presentation, outputting at least one of the video files corresponding to the respective one of the video segments of the requested temporal section from the specified one of the first presentation or the second presentation, wherein to specify the temporal section, the request specifies a file name including a start time and an end time, wherein the request comprises a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) partial GET request specifying a byte range of the one of the video files of the specified presentation, and wherein outputting the at least one of the video files comprises outputting at least a portion of one of the video files from the presentation corresponding to the request, the one of the video files having the start time and the end time specified in the request.