System and method for event-based synchronization in media file transfer and display playback between a peripheral system and a host device

A portable system including a digital connector, a processing hardware unit, and a non-temporary storage device including code that causes the processing hardware device to perform operations, including dividing a received source video file or a virtualized source video into a plurality of image components of the same or not the same size. A resulting data content packet is stored in the system, such as in an image store thereof. System operations further include generating a meta-index packet having a plurality of index components, each index component corresponding to a respective one of the equal size image components, storing the meta-index packet, and sending the data content packet and the meta-index packet to the host device for publishing the image components sequentially according to an order of the meta-index packet for display playback of streaming video corresponding to the source video file or the virtualized source video.