Providing security to video frames

1. A method of processing a compressed and encrypted video media program, comprising:

processing at least a portion of the video media program in a video player that includes a computer processor for processing at least a portion of the video media program, the video player operable for:

receiving the media stream, wherein the video media stream is comprised of one or more chunks;

subdividing the chunks into one or more packets, wherein one or more of the packets include video data;

obfuscating or de-obfuscating at least some of the video data, wherein the step of obfuscating or de-obfuscating comprises obfuscating or de-obfuscating the video data using a caption handling with skip and select approach where only the video data in a first set of packets is de-obfuscated so that caption data is extracted; and

concatenating the video data into one or more frames for playback by the video player.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the frame is stored in a queue after the video data is concatenated, prior to being decoded and rendered by the player.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the video data is de-obfuscated when the frame is retrieved from the queue prior to being decoded and rendered by the player.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the video data is obfuscated or de-obfuscated before being concatenated.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the video data is obfuscated or de-obfuscated after being concatenated.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the chunks in the media stream are obfuscated before being transmitted to the player.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the chunks in the media stream are encrypted before being transmitted to the player.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the step of obfuscating or de-obfuscating is performed using an n-tuple bijection function and n is configurable.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the step of obfuscating or de-obfuscating comprises obfuscating or de-obfuscating the video data using an odd and even approach where only the video data in an odd or even numbered frame is obfuscated or de-obfuscated.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the step of obfuscating or de-obfuscating comprises obfuscating or de-obfuscating the video data using a skip and select approach where only the video data in one or more of the packets is obfuscated or de-obfuscated.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein only a portion of the video data in one or more of the packets is obfuscated or de-obfuscated.

12. The method of claim 10 , wherein the step of obfuscating or de-obfuscating is performed using an n-tuple bijection function, n is a periodicity of obfuscation, and only a first occurrence of a packet with a data length divisible by the periodicity of obfuscation is obfuscated or de-obfuscated.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein a header of the packet is de-obfuscated to determine whether the packet has a data length divisible by the periodicity of obfuscation.

14. The method of claim 1 , wherein the step of obfuscating or de-obfuscating is performed using an n-tuple bijection function, n is a periodicity of obfuscation, and only a first occurrence of a packet following the caption data with a data length divisible by the periodicity of obfuscation is obfuscated or de-obfuscated.

15. The method of claim 1 , wherein only a packet identified by a pseudo-random number is obfuscated or de-obfuscated.

16. The method of claim 1 , wherein packets not containing video data are de-obfuscated.

17. The method of claim 1 , wherein packets not solely containing video data are de-obfuscated.