IP3 2020-Media 6 (LOT 11499)

This lot is generally related to perform transcoding operations in servers.  Disclosed is a technique to perform transcoding operation in servers having low-level processors to achieve appropriate performance to clients. Techniques are disclosed to perform transcoding at the server consisting of a first server for receiving a request from a client device for a video film, segment the video file based on a play time of a portion of the video file and a performance rate of a second server.  Also disclosed are techniques to transmit the segmented video file for transcoding to the high performance second server along with the segmented video file of a greater size and transmit a small size file to other servers having lower performance.  The first server receives a transcoded video file for transmission to the client terminal.  The technology may be implemented in client-server environments, server farms, etc.