Patent ID: 8392826

Claim:
A method for use in converting multimedia content, comprising: receiving media data in a first format; initiating a first conversion of the media data at the first format to a second converted format; evaluating the media data converted to the second converted format; identifying, in accordance with the evaluation of the media data converted to the second converted format, parameters dictating the conversion to the second converted format; recording the parameters; distributing the recorded parameters to remote systems such that the parameters at least in part control the remote systems during a conversion, at the remote systems, of the media data to the second converted format; and determining a quality of a first portion of the media data in the second converted format converted while applying a first parameter having a first state; wherein the identifying the parameters comprises adjusting the first parameter to a second state that is different than the first state, wherein the adjusted first parameter improves data quality of at least the first portion of the media data when the first portion of the media data is converted to the second format upon a subsequent conversion of the first portion of the media data in the first format to the second converted format while applying at least the adjusted first parameter; and wherein the recording the parameters comprises recording the adjusted first parameter; wherein the identifying the parameters further comprises determining whether the first portion of the media data in the second converted format, converted to the second converted format while applying the adjusted first parameter in the second state, has a quality that exceeds a quality of the first portion of the media data in the second converted format when converted to the second converted format while applying the first parameter in the first state; and wherein the recording the parameters comprises recording the adjusted first parameter when the first portion of the adjusted media data in the second converted format, converted to the second converted format while applying the adjusted first parameter in the second state, has a quality that exceeds the quality of the first portion of the media data in the second converted format when converted to the second converted format while applying the first parameter in the first state.