Streaming Techniques

Abstract: There are disclosed streaming techniques. For example, a streaming client device (100), comprises: a communication interface (10) configured to receive a bitstream (12) from a streaming server device, the bitstream (12) including an encoded audio signal (14) according to an encoded audio signal version selected among a plurality of selectable encoded audio signal versions, each of the plurality of selectable encoded audio signal versions having at least one personalization option among a plurality of personalization options, side information (16) including: configuration information indicating the plurality of selectable personalization options for each of the selectable encoded audio signal versions; and capacity information indicating capacity required, by each of the plurality of selectable encoded audio signal versions, by an external resource (13, 300), for transmitting the encoded audio signal; a personalization unit (20) configured to define a personalization (22) by choosing, for each of a plurality of potential states (73) of the external resource (13, 300), a preferred encoded audio signal version (16) among the plurality of selectable encoded audio signal versions (16), based on both the capacity information and the configuration information; a selector (30) configured to perform a selection (32) of a selected encoded audio signal version (16) based on a current state (73) of the external resource (13) and the personalization (22), so that the capacity required by the selected encoded audio signal version (32) matches the current state (73) of the external resource (13), wherein the communication interface (10) is configured to send, to the streaming server device (200), a request (19) of providing the encoded audio signal (14) according to the selected encoded audio signal version (32); and a decoder (60) configured to decode the received encoded audio signal (14) or a transcoder configured to transcode the received encoded audio signal (14) onto another bitstream.

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