ELECTRONIC DEVICE, COMPOSITE-STREAM TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND PROGRAM

摘要

Plural streams are synthesized into one stream, and preferable transmission and reception of the synthesized stream to and from an external device is realized. Transport stream packets of plural transport streams are synthesized to create a synthesized stream, and the created synthesized stream is transmitted to an external device. In this transmission, a count information adding area provided in each of the transport stream packets is brought into a state to which a particular count value is added for each of the transport stream packets of the synthesized stream. This configuration notifies the external device that a function for handling packet order switching based on count information is not provided, and receives from the external device a synthesized stream containing the respective transport stream packets arranged in the same order as the order of the transport stream packets at the time of transmission.