Method and apparatus for playing multimedia content of server via streaming at client using cache

摘要

The present invention relates to a technique for a client to stream content of a server, wherein a service installed on the client receives content from the server on behalf of the media player, downloads the content to a large cache rather than the memory buffer of the media player, and then caches the content. Deliver the stored data to the media player. According to the present invention, data reception from the server is not interrupted even when the memory buffer is full, so that power consumption of the server and client can be reduced, and the service is performed instead of the media player, so that various socket interfaces can be changed without changing the media player. And buffering time because data is stored in the cache.