METHOD AND SERVER FOR DOWNLOADING A BROADCASTED MULTIMEDIA CONTENT OVER A DISTRIBUTION NETWORK

摘要

The invention applies to the transmission of a multimedia content from a server to a client terminal. The multimedia content is available from the server as one or more sets of files. Upon reception of an initial request from the client, the server sends a document back to the client, said document causing the client to repetitively send fetching request. Upon reception of a fetching request, the server selects the file to download.