SENDING DEVICE, SENDING METHOD, RECEIVING DEVICE, AND RECEIVING METHOD

摘要

The objective of the present invention is to be able to easily and quickly carry out detection of a starting byte of an access unit in media data from a layer of a transmission packet. In the present invention, a transmission stream, in which transmission packets are continuously disposed in the upper layer and are holding multiplexed transport packets that include media data, is sent. Inserted into the header of the transmission packets is identifying information for identifying whether or not a starting byte of an access unit in media data exists in the transmission packet.