ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME

An electronic apparatus and a method of operating the same are provided. The electronic apparatus includes: a communication interface comprising communication interface circuitry; a memory storing at least one instruction; and a processor configured to execute the at least one instruction stored in the memory to cause the electronic apparatus to: determine at least one content stream to be pre-fetched; configure a playback pipeline corresponding to the determined at least one content stream considering an available resource of the electronic apparatus; pre-fetch the at least one content stream based on the configured playback pipeline; determine whether to update the pre-fetched at least one content stream based on a type of the pre-fetched at least one content stream; and update the pre-fetched at least one content stream at regular time intervals based on a result of the determining of whether to update.