A method for providing a user-adaptive digest stream provides a digest stream of a multimedia stream having a user-desired length and reflecting the user's preference/non-preference. The method for providing a user-adaptive multi-level digest stream can dynamically provide the user-adaptive digest stream according to user preference information. The method can include searching user preference information having user preference/non-preference level by categories for a multimedia stream, and reconstructing a multi-level digest stream information on a multimedia stream as a multi-level digest stream information according to the user preference information, using both the searched user preference information and a content-based data of a multimedia stream. Thereby, it is possible to quickly, accurately and conveniently provide a multi-level digest stream corresponding to the user's preference without inputting an additional query condition.