no lagging ebp is indicated from a segmenter the controller 310 may unblock any segmenters that have indicated an ebp in sync with the sync point and allow them to create a segment when a segmenter is unblocked it may continue processing the transcoded content stream to locate the next ebp in some embodiments the controller may cause any segmenter that has indicated a leading ebp to remain blocked at the previously indicated ebp in some embodiments one or more additional controllers may be provided in a redundant arrangement whereby any additional controller may serve as backup in case of failure of another controller after a segmenter has generated a segment the segment may be stored in the storage system 314 in some embodiments the storage system may be a memory provided by the segmenter in other embodiments the storage system may be a network attached storage nas device in still other embodiments the storage system may be provided by a server such as the origin server 316 the storage system 314 may comprise a data storage repository for storing content such as multimedia programs that may be requested by a client device the storage system 314 may comprise magnetic hard disk drives optical discs such as cds and dvds and or other optical media or optical drives nas devices and or any combination thereof the programs stored.