Method for playing on a player of a client device a content streamed in a network

A device for playing on a player a content streamed in a network, said content consisting of a sequence of segments available in a plurality of quality levels, the player being configured so as to choose the quality level of the segments as a function of at least one parameter representative of a segment reception rate, according to an Adaptive BitRate, ABR, logic of the player;

• the client device comprising a first buffer for storing segments in a format adapted for transferring within the network, the client device comprises a processing unit implementing:
• (a) receiving from the player a request for a current segment at a first quality level;
• (b) determining that the player will request according to its ABR logic a next segment at a second quality level after said requested current segment is provided from the first buffer memory, using a model predicting the ABR logic of the player and predicting said second quantity level with the model predicting the ABR logic of the player as a function of said at least one parameter representative of a segment reception rate;
• and
• (c) if said next segment is not present at said second quality level in the first buffer memory, fetching said next segment at said second quality level from the network, wherein
• said model is trained from a database of training examples each associating a vector of measured parameters representative of a segment reception rate with the corresponding quality level subsequently chosen by the player according to its ABR logic.