CPC H04N 21/44209 (2013.01) [H04N 21/816 (2013.01); H04N 21/8456 (2013.01)] | 16 Claims |
1. A client device for managing a streaming session of a multimedia content received from a communication network, said client device comprising one or more processors configured for:
obtaining, for representations of the multimedia content having multiple segments, a frame size of a first frame of a next segment to be requested;
obtaining, for the representations of the multimedia content, a download time for the first frame of the next segment to be requested from a ratio of the obtained frame size of the first frame of the next segment to be requested over an available bandwidth; and
requesting a representation from among the representations based on the obtained download time of the representation being equal to or below a reference time.
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