SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ALIGNMENT OF MULTIPLE TRANSCODERS FOR ADAPTIVE BITRATE STREAMING IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT

A method is provided in one example and includes receiving source video including associated video timestamps and determining a theoretical fragment boundary timestamp based upon one or more characteristics of the source video and the received video timestamps. The theoretical fragment boundary timestamp identifies a fragment including one or more video frames of the source video. The method further includes determining an actual fragment boundary timestamp based upon the theoretical fragment boundary timestamp and one or more of the received video timestamps, transcoding the source video according to the actual fragment boundary timestamp, and outputting the transcoded source video including the actual fragment boundary timestamp.