| CPC H04N 21/44012 (2013.01) [H04N 21/2393 (2013.01); H04N 21/437 (2013.01); H04N 21/643 (2013.01); H04N 21/85406 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |

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1. A method for dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP (DASH) media streaming, applied at a client, comprising:
acquiring a first media presentation description (MPD) file, a media initialization file, and a first media slice file of a DASH media stream to be played from a server by sending at most two acquisition requests to the server, wherein the media initialization file and the first media slice file are requested through one of the at most two acquisition requests;
requesting subsequent MPD files from the server according to the first MPD file; and
acquiring other media slice files in addition to the first media slice file from the server according to the subsequent MPD files.
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