Methods and apparatus are described for delivering streams of media content in ways that smooth out the peaks that might otherwise occur due to the bit rate variations that result from encoding of the media content. This is accomplished by controlling the timing of the transmission of packets of the encoded media content.

There is provided a transmission apparatus including: a processing unit that performs processing of mixing, at a mixing rate independent for each frame, image data in peripheral frames with image data in each frame of first moving image data at a first frame rate and obtains second moving image data at the first frame rate. At least image data in a frame corresponding to a second frame rate that is lower than the first frame rate in the image data in each frame that forms the second moving image data is brought into a state in which the image data is mixed with the image data in the peripheral frames.

There is provided a transmission apparatus including: a processing unit that performs processing of mixing, at a mixing rate independent for each frame, image data in peripheral frames with image data in each frame of first moving image data at a first frame rate and obtains second moving image data at the first frame rate. At least image data in a frame corresponding to a second frame rate that is lower than the first frame rate in the image data in each frame that forms the second moving image data is brought into a state in which the image data is mixed with the image data in the peripheral frames.

There are provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program. The information processing apparatus includes a generating unit configured to generate a content file including object selection information for selecting object audio data in accordance with a display state of an image, in which the generating unit stores the object selection information in a metadata file included in the content file.

There are provided a method and apparatus for delivering transport characteristics of multimedia data. According to an aspect of the present invention, transport characteristics of media data that can be divided in a unit of a Media Processing Unit (MPU) are created in a unit of a predetermined number of MPUs, the created transport characteristics and a flag indicating presence or absence of the created transport characteristics are inserted into the media data, and the resultant media data is delivered. Accordingly, by using transport characteristics in units of media data unit groups, each media data unit corresponding to a short time length, it is possible to effectively control Quality of Service (QoS) in a dynamically changing transport environment, like a mobile network.

Systems and methods are described for delivering regional content for a lineup over a national network. A content provider may select a particular regional broadcast for inclusion in a regional service lineup. The content provider may be able to broadcast multiple, or even all, services nationally. At regional distribution centers, a multiplexer may select only those services that are desired for the region in response to in-stream signals. In some instances, a single region-specific version of a given service may be selected from multiple versions broadcasted nationally. The regional lineup, including the selected services, can then be multiplexed and transmitted to customers throughout the region.

A method for processing a multimedia content previously digitally encoded into an audio-video stream and transmitted from a distribution platform for the purposes of on-demand transmission to a plurality of receiving terminals includes the following steps: applying a demultiplexing function to the audio-video stream, said function being arranged to generate at least one group of data streams; applying a transformation to each data stream; segmenting each data stream; storing the at least one group of segmented data streams in a memory; carrying out, only in response to a request issued by a receiving terminal among the plurality of receiving terminals, the following steps: selecting, on the basis of the request, at least one data stream of at least one group of stored data streams; and transmitting the at least one selected data stream to the receiving terminal that issued the request.

The present technology makes it easy to present an image having appropriate image quality at a receiver side that receives high-frame-rate moving image data. A video stream obtained by encoding moving image data having a high frame rate is generated. A container containing the video stream is transmitted. Blur control information for controlling blur is inserted into a layer of the container and/or a layer of the video stream. The blur control information gives, for example, weighting coefficients for individual frames in a blurring process for adding image data of neighboring frames to image data of a current frame.

A system is provided for a rendering stream distributor controller for use with a plurality of content sources, a HTML code repository, a plurality of video rendering engines and a distribution network. The rendering stream distributor controller includes an outbound IP address inventory system, a video rendering engine and network elements inventory system and a rendering stream controller. The rendering stream controller is able to provide a stream instruction, based on one of a plurality of outbound IP addresses, one of a plurality of HTML content identification data, and one of a plurality of sets of HTML code so as to instruct one of the plurality of video rendering engines to output an MPEG transport stream.

The present invention provides a digital broadcast receiver capable of executing functions having higher added values. The broadcast receiver receives a broadcast wave of a digital broadcast service, controls an operation including activation and end of an application that is in cooperation with a broadcast program based on application-related information, and selects control relating to reactivation of the application based on a user's operation. If activation of the application is requested after the end of the application, the broadcast receiver controls the reactivation or non-reactivation of the application in accordance with the selection of control by the user.