RECEPTION APPARATUS, RECEPTION METHOD, TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, AND TRANSMISSION METHOD

摘要

The present technology pertains to a reception device, a reception method, a transmission device, and a transmission method, which are capable of accommodating a large variety of service formats. The reception device obtains first metadata that includes class information for providing, in multiple formats, services identified by IP addresses and transmitted with broadcast waves digitally broadcast using an IP transmission method. In addition, for each of the multiple formats the reception device connects to a component stream constituting a service and controls the reproduction of the components on the basis of the class information included in the first metadata. The present technology can be applied to stationary receivers such as television receivers and mobile receivers such as smartphones.