1. A method of receiving media data, the method comprising: receiving, via a network streaming protocol, a first segment of video data of a representation, wherein the video data of the first segment comprises a first stream access point, wherein the first segment comprises a first independently receivable file formatted according to the network streaming protocol, wherein the first segment includes a first plurality of video frames, at least one of the first plurality of video frames comprising the first stream access point, wherein the first segment is associated with a first uniform resource locator (URL), and wherein each of the video frames of the first plurality of video frames comprises a respective, distinct picture order count (POC) value; receiving, via the network streaming protocol, a second segment of video data of the representation following the first segment, wherein the video data of the second segment lacks a stream access point at the beginning of the second segment to reduce latency, wherein the second segment comprises a second independently receivable file formatted according to the network streaming protocol, wherein the second segment comprises a second plurality of video frames, wherein the second segment is associated with a second, different URL, and wherein each of the video frames of the second plurality of video frames comprises a respective, distinct POC value; and before a second stream access point, subsequent to the first stream access point, is available, decoding, by a processing unit, at least a portion of the video data of the second segment relative to at least a portion of the video data of the first segment, wherein decoding comprises predicting at least a portion of a second video frame of the second plurality of video frames of the second segment using at least a portion of a first video frame of the first plurality of video frames of the first segment.