| 摘要 |
The present invention relates to a method of distributing bitstreams, in which one or more server devices transfer a bitstream via a network to a client device belonging to a plurality of clients, and in which digital data may be transcoded according to a plurality of predetermined transcoding methods, said method comprising performing a global selection of a set of transcoding methods, each method being associated with a client connected to the network, depending on predetermined criteria comprising at least taking into account the bandwidth of the network. The invention also relates to various devices and apparatuses adapted to implement this method. Application in particular to the local distribution of multimedia programs.
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