CONTENT SUPPLY DEVICE, CONTENT SUPPLY METHOD, PROGRAM, AND CONTENT SUPPLY SYSTEM

摘要

The present disclosure relates to a content supply device, a content supply method, a program, and a content supply system, wherein an adaptive streaming technique based on DASH is extended to enable the use of broadcast distribution and multicast distribution.;A content supply device according to a first aspect of the present disclosure is a content supply device that supplies streaming data of content in accordance with an adaptive streaming technique, the device including: an HTTP distribution unit that makes the streaming data into a file for each segment and distributes by HTTP the obtained segment file through a bidirectional communication network; a multicast distribution unit that distributes the segment file by multicast; and a meta file generation unit that generates a meta file in which information for receiving the segment file to be subjected to the HTTP distribution or the multicast distribution is described. The present disclosure is applicable to the system for streaming the content.

主权项

1. A content supply device that supplies streaming data of content in accordance with an adaptive streaming technique, the device comprising:
an HTTP distribution unit that makes the streaming data into a file for each segment and distributes by HTTP the obtained segment file through a bidirectional communication network; a multicast distribution unit that distributes the segment file by multicast; and a meta file generation unit that generates a meta file in which information for receiving the segment file to be subjected to the HTTP distribution or the multicast distribution is described, and supplies the meta file to a reception side.