Smart client for streaming of scene-based immersive media to game engine

A method of media processing in an electronic device, comprising:

• transmitting, by a client interface of the electronic device and to a server device in an immersive media streaming network, capability and availability information of the electronic device for playing back a scene-based immersive media, the scene-based immersive media including a plurality of scenes, a first scene in the plurality of scenes being indicated by a scene graph that specifies logical relationships among a plurality of media assets in the first scene;
• receiving, by the client interface, a media stream carrying adapted media content for the scene-based immersive media, the adapted media content being generated from the scene-based immersive media by the server device based on the capability and availability information;
• playing back the scene-based immersive media according to the adapted media content;
• determining, according to the adapted media content, that a first media asset associated with the first scene is received for a first time and is to be reused in one or more scenes in the plurality of scenes, the plurality of media assets including the first media asset;
• storing the first media asset in a cache device that is accessible by the electronic device;
• and
• extracting a first list of unique assets in the first scene from the media stream, the first list of unique assets identifying the first media asset as a unique asset in the first scene and to be used in the first scene and reused in the one or more scenes, wherein
• an entry for the first media asset in the first list of unique assets in the first scene includes an indicator for a type of media of the first media asset, a unique identifier for the first media asset, and a number of times that the first media asset is used across the plurality of scenes in the scene-based immersive media, the type of media being one of a plurality of assets including a visual asset, an audio asset, and a haptic asset, the plurality of scenes including the first scene and the one or more scenes, and the number of times being a number of the first scene and the one or more scenes.