APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING STREAMING CONTENT

摘要

Disclosed are an apparatus and method for providing an adaptive HTTP streaming service using metadata for content. The metadata includes one or more base URL elements. The URL of a segment constituting media is generated on the basis of one or more base URL elements. The URLs of the segment may be generated by mapping any of the one or more base URL elements into a source URL property of the segment. The generated URLs indicate the same segment.