A method for transmission / reception of media content and device for transmitting / receiving that uses this

There is provided a method and an apparatus for transmitting / receiving media content over the Internet. The method comprising: configuring the media content with a plurality of representations; Dividing the configured representation into a plurality of segments; Arranging sub-segments in the segment; and sending one of the representations, wherein the sub-segments are arranged to allow the earliest display time point of the k-th segment in the first representation to be larger than the latest presentation time of the k - 1-th segment in the second representation with the representations ,