Patent attributes
An inventive method provides various reproduction modes by controlled selection of replay locations. Selection within a video stream or between separate video streams derived for selected trick-play speeds may be facilitated. The method allows selections to be decoded and displayed independently from a previously video stream selection. The method comprises the steps of: identifying a digitally encoded set of signals in a storage medium for each one of a plurality of video programs for reproduction of each one of said plurality of programs at a plurality of reproduction speeds; linking each of the encoded signals in each of the sets to one another at predetermined jump points; reproducing one of the encoded signals in response to selection of a program and a reproduction speed; jumping to different ones of the encoded signals for the reproducing in accordance with the predetermined jump points, in response to subsequent selections of different reproduction speeds; and, decoding the reproduced signals for display of the selected program at the selected reproduction speeds.
