Patent ID: 8792779

Claim:
A method of selecting a content reproducing apparatus of a plurality of content reproducing apparatuses, the method comprising: receiving a content file comprising a content and minimum resource (MR) metadata, from a content providing server or a content providing medium, the content comprising a plurality of audio tracks and a plurality of video tracks and the MR metadata comprising minimum resource information required to reproduce a first pair of one of the plurality of audio tracks and one of the plurality of video tracks; receiving device level (DL) metadata from the plurality of content reproducing apparatuses, wherein the DL metadata comprise capability information of the plurality of content reproducing apparatuses; determining whether at least one of the plurality of content reproducing apparatuses is operable to reproduce the content; and renewing the MR metadata to comprise minimum resource information required to reproduce a second pair of one of the plurality of audio tracks and one of the plurality of video tracks when none of the plurality of content reproducing apparatuses is operable to reproduce the content and re-determining whether at least one of the plurality of content reproducing apparatuses is operable to reproduce the content.