Patent attributes
A method of transmitting media content is provided that provides for a significantly reduced chunk size. The method includes receiving one or more adaptive transport streams into a memory buffer at a HTTP streamer from a media preparation unit. The received transport streams include a plurality of switchable segments each comprising one or more delivery chunks, the switchable segments being marked with segment boundary points and the delivery chunks being marked with chunk boundary points. One or more of the delivery chunks are then transmitted from a requested switchable segment to a requesting client device until a terminating segment boundary point is reached, wherein each delivery chunk is independently decodable, and a client device can begin decoding and rendering received delivery chunks even when the HTTP streamer has not yet completely received the entire requested switchable segment from the media preparation unit.
