| CPC H04N 21/23106 (2013.01) [H04N 21/232 (2013.01); H04N 21/2393 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |

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1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a first computing device, a request for an initialization segment associated with a content item of a plurality of content items, wherein the plurality of content items are associated with a common bitrate;
based on the requested initialization segment associated with the content item not being locally available, generating, based on the common bitrate, a first initialization segment that is associated with the plurality of content items; and
sending, based on the request, the first initialization segment, wherein the first initialization segment facilitates output of the plurality of content items at the common bitrate.
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