APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING STREAMING CONTENTS

摘要

PURPOSE: A device for providing streaming content and a method thereof are provided to efficiently divide and transmit MPD(Media Presentation Description) in active http streaming by using general MPD and specific MPD, thereby efficiently transmitting the MPD by the usage purpose of a terminal. CONSTITUTION: A terminal(110) receives meta data of a media with one or more cycles from a server(100). The terminal approaches to segments of the media based on the information which the meta data provides. The terminal performs decoding and rendering of the media data of the segments. Each cycle includes one or more groups. Each group includes one or more representations of the media.