Method and apparatus for playing content

Abstract

A play content device and method by accessing prestored content which containing information related with downloaded content, checking available bandwidth according to downloaded content, then sending a request containing bandwidth information, receiving relative downloaded content accorded with checked bandwidth, playing downloaded content combined with prestored content. Said invention adopts real time automatically checking current available bandwidth of connected network to dynamically changing downloaded content quality, realizing seamless playing without the problem resulted from user self-selecting quality.

Description

Background technique [0001] The present invention relates to a method and device for playing content, in particular to a method and device for downloading and playing content of appropriate quality by detecting in real time the available bandwidth of a playback device linked to a network. [0002] With the rapid development of optical discs and optical disc playing technologies, more and more contents are stored on the network server, so that these contents can be downloaded to the player during the playing of the optical disc, so as to cooperate with the player to play the optical disc. [0003] The downloaded content can be applications, audio and subtitles, etc. The application program refers to an application program expressed in JAVA language or an application program expressed in other programming languages. The application programs expressed by the JAVA language are: advertisements, games, animations, and execution programs for controlling the process of playing CDs wr...

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