A Method, a User Equipment and a Computer Program Product for Enabling a Dynamic Adaptive Streaming Over HTTP, Dash, Player to Fetch Media Segments from a Network

A method of enabling a Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) player to fetch media segments from a network, wherein said method comprises:

• receiving, by a DASH Aware Network Element (DANE) middleware, from said network:
• a manifest, wherein said manifest comprises a representation base Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) for indicating a location to said DASH player for fetching said media segments;
• a default representation base URI that is available in a default mode for fetching said media segments from a default content delivery network (CDN);
• and
• a secondary representation base URI that is available in a secondary mode for fetching said media segments from a secondary CDN;
• transmitting, by said DANE middleware, said manifest to said DASH player;
• transmitting, by said DANE middleware, to said DASH player, a ManifestModificationCommand message, wherein said ManifestModificationCommand message comprises one or more representation base URI's of any of said default representation base URI and said secondary representation base URI that are to modify a representation base URI in said manifest.

A method for a Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) player to fetch media segments from a telecommunication network, wherein said method comprises the steps of:

• receiving, by said DASH player, from a DASH Aware Network Element (DANE) middleware, a manifest, wherein said manifest comprises a representation base Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) for indicating a location to said DASH player for fetching said media segments;
• receiving, by said DASH player, from said DANE middleware, a ManifestModificationCommand message comprising one or more representation base URI's of any of:
• a default representation base URI which is available in a default mode for fetching said media segments from a default content delivery network (CDN);
• a secondary representation base URI which is available in a secondary mode for fetching said media segments from a secondary CDN;
• which default representation base URI or secondary representation base URI are to modify a representation base URI in said manifest;
• and
• modifying, by said DASH player, said representation base URI in said manifest based on said ManifestModificationCommand message.

A User Equipment (UE) arranged for enabling a Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) player to fetch media segments from a network, wherein said UE comprises DASH Aware Network Element (DASH) middleware comprising:

• receive equipment arranged for receiving from said network:
• a manifest, wherein said manifest comprises a representation base Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) for indicating a location to said DASH player for fetching said media segments;
• a default representation base URI which is available in default mode for fetching said media segments from a default content delivery network (CDN);
• a secondary representation base URI which is available in secondary mode for fetching said media segments from a secondary CDN;
• transmit equipment arranged for transmitting said manifest to said DASH player, and for transmitting, to said DASH player, a ManifestModificationCommand message, wherein said ManifestModificationCommand message comprises one or more representation base URI's of any of said default representation base URI and said secondary representation base URI that are to modify a representation base URI in said manifest.

A User Equipment (UE) arranged to fetch media segments from a network, said UE comprises a Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) player which comprises:

• receive equipment arranged for receiving, from a DASH Aware Network Element (DANE) middleware, a manifest, wherein said manifest comprises a representation base Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) for indicating a location to said DASH player for fetching said media segments;
• wherein said receive equipment is further arranged for receiving, from said DANE middleware, a ManifestModificationCommand message comprising one or more representation base URI's of any of a:
• a default representation base URI which is available in default mode for fetching said media segments from a default Content Delivery Network (CDN);
• and
• a secondary representation base URI which is available in secondary mode for fetching said media segments from a secondary CDN;
• which one or more representation base URI's are to modify a representation base URI in said manifest;
• and
• modify equipment arranged for modifying said representation base URI in said manifest based on said ManifestModificationCommand message.