Adaptive multimedia system for providing multimedia contents and codec to user terminal and method thereof

An open codec player of a user terminal, comprising:

• a user interface unit that plays multimedia contents;
• a media server user interface system connection unit that receives profile information of selected multimedia contents from the user terminal;
• a contents profile analyzer that extracts the contents profile information and analyzes whether or not a codec corresponding to the profile information exists in the user terminal;
• a contents format analyzer that receives a transmission frame including multimedia contents and a decoding codec transmitted from a multimedia system, and separates the decoding codec from the multimedia contents;
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• a multimedia contents execution unit that parses the format of the multimedia contents transmitted from the contents format analyzer, and extracts and plays media.

An adaptive multimedia providing method for a terminal not having a multimedia codec, the method comprising the steps of:

• (a) causing an open codec player of a user terminal to request a media server controller for selected multimedia contents;
• (b) receiving profile information about a codec for decoding the multimedia contents from a multimedia system and determining whether or not the decoding codec exists in the user terminal;
• (c) when the decoding codec does not exist in the user terminal, transmitting profile information about the codec so as for the open codec player to receive the decoding codec from the media server controller, together with the selected multimedia contents;
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• (d) receiving a transmission frame including the requested multimedia contents and decoding codec from a transmission frame generator.