STREAMING MEDIA TRANSMISSION METHOD AND SYSTEM, USER EQUIPMENT, AND SERVER

摘要

Embodiments of the present invention relate to the field of communications technologies, and provide a streaming media transmission method, apparatus, and system. The method includes: receiving, by UE, USD information and an MPD file of a first media file, where the USD information includes a delivery method element, the delivery method element includes indication information used for indicating a first media stream file that is of the first media file and sent in a unicast manner or a media content segment of the first media stream file; and when the UE is in an MBMS service area, acquiring a media content segment of a second media stream file in a broadcast manner; or when the UE is not in an MBMS service area, acquiring a media content segment of the first media stream file from a specified server in a unicast manner according to the indication information.

主权项

1. A streaming media transmission method, comprising:
receiving, by user equipment (UE), user service description (USD) information and a media presentation description (MPD) file of a first media file, wherein the first media file comprises a media stream file at at least one quality level, the media stream file at each quality level separately comprises one media content segment or more continuous media content segments, the USD information comprises a delivery method element, the delivery method element comprises indication information, the indication information is used for indicating a first media stream file that is of the first media file and sent in a unicast mariner, and the indication information is further used for instructing the UE to acquire a media content segment of the first media stream file from a specified server in a unicast manner when the UE is not in an multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) service area; and when the UE is in an MBMS service area, acquiring a media content segment of a second media stream file of the first media file in a broadcast manner according to the USD information, or when the UE is not in an MBMS service area, acquiring a media content segment of the first media stream file from the specified server in a unicast manner according to the indication information.