Multi-user, on-demand video server system including independent,

Details Multi-user, on-demand video server system including independent, Multi-user, on-demand video server system including independent,

1997-11-07

2000-11-14

Tran, Thai

Motion video signal processing for recording or reproducing

Local trick play processing

With randomly accessible medium

386126, 348 7, 348 12, H04N 576, H04N 710

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active

061481424

ABSTRACT:
A plurality of movies are distributively stored in digital form on a mass storage unit such as a Redundant Array of Inexpensive Drives (RAID) disk drive system such that they can be viewed on demand by multiple users. A master controller receives movie requests from users, and generates designation commands through a Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) bus that designates a retrieval controller at the requesting user's facility, and locations of the requested movie data in the RAID system. Successive designation commands are generated for successive blocks of the movie data. A designated retrieval controller reads a designated block of data from the RAID system through the SCSI bus, and converts the retrieved data into video picture and audio format to show the movie on a television receiver at the requesting user's facility. The movie data is preferably compressed on the RAID system in Motion Picture Experts Group (MPEG) format, and decompressed by the retrieval controllers.

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