PROCESSING OF MULTIMEDIA DATA

摘要

Techniques for providing media content to an adaptive HTTP streaming player. Upon reception of a HTTP request from the adaptive HTTP streaming player, like a DASH player, requesting the media content, a HTTP entity performs a procedure for determining a representation preference indication of the content being available on a fixed quality interface providing data with fixed data quality, which may provide data being for example received over a broadcast interface or being available in a cache. Said representation preference indication is signaled to the adaptive HTTP streaming player, which is adapted to use the representation preference indication for further requests. The adaptive HTTP streaming player is not aware whether the content is available on a fixed or unicast interface, but is forced with the solution to use the preferred representation being available on the fixed quality interface.

主权项

1. A method for providing media content to an adaptive HTTP streaming player, the method comprising the steps of:
receiving a HTTP request from the adaptive HTTP streaming player requesting the media content; identifying the media content as media content being available on a fixed quality interface; determining a representation preference indication of the media content provided on the fixed quality interface, wherein the representation preference indication indicates a preferred representation of the media content; and signaling the representation preference indication to the adaptive HTTP streaming player in order to instruct the adaptive HTTP streaming player to use the preferred representation of the media content for requesting the media content being provided on the fixed quality interface.