Patent attributes
Disclosed herein are implementations of systems, methods, and apparatuses for extended protection of digital video streams. The disclosed implementations include a method for transmitting a video stream over a network with forward error correction protection including encoding a current frame of the plurality of frames, producing a plurality of data packets from the encoded frame, generating a plurality of protection packets including data usable for restoring one or more lost data packets of the plurality of data packets, wherein at least one of the plurality of protection packets also includes data usable for restoring a lost protection packet of the protection packets, and wherein a protection packet of the plurality of protection packets includes a packet mask that indicates which of the plurality of data packets and plurality of protection packets are protected by the protection packet, and transmitting the data packets and the protection packets over the network.
