Method and apparatus for acquiring and transmitting streaming media data in the process of initiation

A method and an apparatus for acquiring and transmitting streaming media data in the process of initiation are provided in the embodiments of the present invention. The acquiring method includes: acquiring a streaming media content description file (101); generating an acquiring request for the segment content according to the streaming media content description file and transmitting it to the server end (102); acquiring the streaming media data segment content corresponding to the acquiring request for the segment content from the server by using multiple Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connections in the process of initiation (103). The embodiments of the present invention can reduce the initiation delay.