SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FAST CHANNEL CHANGING

The present disclosure is generally directed to mitigating decoding and rendering delay experienced during channel change operations. In particular, the techniques provided herein use a first stream of content with a relatively low group of pictures (GOP) length as a temporary content to decode and render while a second version with a relatively larger GOP length is decoded. By rendering the first stream during decoding of a second stream, the digital channel changing operation may be enhanced by rendering a version of the digital content with less delay.