A system is provided for improving functionality and performance of ABR framework, so as to preemptively compensate for additional latencies arising as result of having an additional control channel associated with ABR Control Engine which runs as a standalone entity separated physically or logically from ABR Media Player running on a Consumer device. The system comprises a set of software and/or hardware-based components implementing ABR Fetch-Processor or functionally similar design, wherein the ABR Fetch-Processor provided as the software or hardware component is plugged in between Media Pipeline of the Consumer Device and distributed embodiment of the ABR framework.