Method for enabling packet transfer delay compensation in multimedia streaming

A client-server collaboration method for enabling packet transfer delay variation compensation in a multimedia streaming system, in which a signal indicative of pre-decoding buffering parameters is provided by a streaming server to a streaming client, and wherein the pre-decoding buffering parameters indicated by the server are chosen such as to ensure that the client is able to play out a packet stream without client buffer violation if the packet stream is transmitted over a constant delay, reliable channel, said method comprising:

• determining client's chosen pre-decoding buffering parameters;
• and
• providing information indicative of the client's chosen pre-decoding buffering parameters to the server, so that the client's jitter buffering capabilities can be determined based on a difference between the pre-decoding buffering parameters provided to the streaming server and the pre-decoding buffering parameters provided by the streaming server.