System and method for an early start of audio-video rendering

Method at a receiver for early playing a stream, said stream comprising a set of video samples and a set of audio samples, said audio samples and said video samples being adapted to be rendered at a standard rendering speed in a synchronized manner, comprising at the receiver the steps of

• starting the reception of said stream;
• buffering said stream in a memory;
• starting the rendering of said video samples at a speed slower than the standard rendering speed;
• once the audio samples buffer level reaches a threshold, starting the rendering said audio samples, synchronized with the video samples, at a speed lower than the standard speed;
• accelerating the rendering speed of said video samples and audio samples up to the standard rendering speed;
• and
• rendering the video samples at the standard rendering speed and synchronized with the audio samples rendered at the standard rendering speed.