摘要 |
A method of receiving, at a communication device, a multimedia data stream composed of a sequence of multimedia data segments from a plurality of data sources, each multimedia data segment having an execution time slot relative to an execution time slot of an initial multimedia data segment of the sequence the method comprising: receiving a first multimedia segment from the respective data source and executing said first multimedia segment on the communication device; during execution of the first multimedia segment, determining a time to start downloading said subsequent multimedia data segment based on the execution time slot of said subsequent multimedia data segment relative to the current time slot and the transmission capability between the data source of the said subsequent multimedia data segment and the communication device; and downloading, at the determined time, the said subsequent multimedia data segment for execution during said execution time slot.
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