MEDIA REPRESENTATION GROUPS FOR NETWORK STREAMING OF CODED VIDEO DATA

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide techniques for improving streaming of media data over a network.SOLUTION: A device comprises one or more processors configured to: analyze at least a portion of a manifest file including information indicative of sets of representations of the multimedia content and information indicative of common characteristics for each of the sets of representations; select one of the sets of representations on the basis of the common characteristics for the one of the sets of representations; select one of the representations of the selected one of the sets of representations on the basis of one or more coding characteristics of the one of the representations of the one of the sets; and generate a request for data of the one of the representations on the basis of the selection.