公开(公告)号：US20240406243A1

公开(公告)日：2024-12-05

申请号：US18697260

申请日：2022-09-21

Applicant: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation

Inventor： Jason Michael CLOUD ,  Elliot OSBORNE

IPC: H04L65/75 ,  H04L65/70 ,  H04L65/80 ,  H04N21/44 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/462

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and variable quality playback system for selecting a quality of media content. The method comprising receiving (S4001) media content of a data segment (1010) over at least one network path (1031a, 1031b, 1031c), the media content being encoded with network or application-layer code and storing (S4002) the media content in a network or application-layer decoder (1050). The network or application-layer decoder (1050) is configured to decode the media content and provide decoded media content to a buffer (5061) associated with a media renderer (1060). The method further comprises obtaining a decoding metric of the network or application-layer decoder (1050), the decoding metric indicating a property of the decoding process and selecting the quality of the media content of subsequent data segments based on the decoding metric.