Abstract: A method, system, device and software code product are disclosed which provide efficient multicast/broadcast distribution of formatted data. Formatted data can comprise metadata and content (media data) and several embodiment of the inventions disclose retransmitting the metadata in order to increase the reliability of the file distribution by increasing the chances that the metadata is received without error. In addition, embodiments of the invention disclose scheduling transmission of data packets of formatted data so that the metadata packets are transmitted at an earlier time location than they occur in the original formatted data file to decrease latency in file playback.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method, a computer program, a computer program product, a system, a sender, a receiver and a session description protocol for transmitting common data from one sender (902) to a plurality of receivers (901) within a transmission session, comprising communicating (802) at least one session parameter, which is related to said transmission of said common data within said transmission session, to said plurality of receivers (901) via a communication protocol; and transmitting said common data from said sender (902) to said plurality of receivers (901) within said transmission session. The invention particularly relates to broadcast/multicast transmission of common data in a wire-bound and/or wireless network, wherein a File Delivery over Unidirectional Transport FLUTE protocol is used.

Abstract: A method, devices, system and software application products for wired or wireless communication. A file format for a DRM (Digital Rights Management) media content is provided. The file format has textual content-location header(s) in a common headers box for indicating content-location information of the media content.

Abstract: Quality feedback in a streaming service wherein at least one media stream (101) is streamed to a client (601) and a quality feedback value is determined (304) according to at least one quality metric is improved by determining (305) a timestamp relating to said quality feedback value according to at least one timestamp metric, wherein for each of said at least one quality metrics, a corresponding timestamp metric is defined, and wherein each of said at least one timestamp metrics is based on a relative media playback time of said at least one media stream (101), and reporting (306) said quality feedback value and said related timestamp to a server (600). Said relative media playback time is preferably derived from RTP (102) timestamps, from a NPT provided by a RTSP (109), from timestamps of a RTCP or from timestamps of a SIP.

Abstract: The invention relates to method for buffering encoded pictures. The method includes an encoding step for forming encoded pictures in an encoder. The method also includes a transmission step for transmitting said encoded pictures to a decoder as transmission units, a buffering step for buffering transmission units transmitted to the decoder in a buffer, and a decoding step for decoding the encoded pictures for forming decoded pictures. The buffer size is defined so that the total size of at least two transmission units is defined and the maximum buffer size is defined on the basis of the total size.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for arranging streaming or downloading a streamable file comprising meta-data and media-data over a network between a server and a client at least part of the meta-data of the file is transmitted to the client, the transmitted meta-data comprising at least locations of media-data ranges in the file. The location of the desired media-data part in the file is determined on the basis of the received meta-data. A request is sent to the server informing the server on the media-data range that is to be transferred to the client. The requested media-data range is then transmitted to the client.

Abstract: A method in a communication system, a communication system and a communication device wherein in the method media streams are transmitted from a sending communication device to a receiving communication device at least partly via a wireless communication network. At least one media stream is selected to be transmitted to the receiving communication device. QoS requirements for transmitting the selected at least one media stream are defined, transmission resources are reserved from the wireless communication network for the transmission of at least one media stream, and a setup procedure is performed between the receiving communication device and the sending communication device for activating the one packet data transmission connection.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for streaming media from a streaming server (111) to a streaming client (101) via a transmission channel (121), wherein the method comprises reducing effects caused by transmission channel error variation by applying error resilience adaptation to the streaming media. The error resilience adaptation may comprise improving or reducing error resilience properties of a streaming content during an ongoing streaming session, through, e.g, the use of a set of pre-defined error resilience levels.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for composing a multimedia file comprising meta-data and media-data. The multimedia file is composed such that the file comprises at least one part for file level meta-data common to all media samples of the file and independent segments comprising media-data of a plurality of media samples and meta-data of said media samples.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for reducing visual artefacts in a frame of a digital video signal, which is coded by blocks and then decoded. A block type is defined according to the coding method for a block selected according to a predetermined set of coding types. In the method filtering is performed to reduce visual artefacts due to a block boundary. The filtering performed depends on block types of the frame in the environment of the block boundary (30).