METHOD FOR PLAYING ON A PLAYER OF A CLIENT DEVICE A CONTENT STREAMED IN A NETWORK

The present invention relates to a method for playing on a player of a client device (11) a content streamed in a network (1), said content consisting of a sequence of segments available in a plurality of quality levels, the player being configured to request segments at a selectable quality level; the method being characterized in that it comprises performing by a processing unit (110) of the client device (11):(a) obtaining from the network (1) a model approximating an Adaptive BitRate, ABR, logic for choosing said quality level of the segments as a function of at least one parameter representative of a segment reception rate;(b) determining, according to said obtained model, a first quality level at which the player would have requested a current segment if the player was applying said ABR logic;(c) configuring the player to select said first quality level as quality level for requesting segments.