METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADAPTIVE STREAMING

摘要

PURPOSE: An adaptive streaming device is provided to realize adaptive streaming according to a streaming environment using existing protocols without changing the configuration of a server and/or a client. CONSTITUTION: An encoding unit(110) encodes one content to a plurality of different qualities. A plurality of encoded media data is transmitted to a server(120). At this time, information about the content and information about each media data are transmitted to the server. According to a streaming environment, a client(130) requests to transmit selected media data. The server transmits the requested media data.