Digital Broadcasting Contents Packaging for Storage Media

In this paper, we propose a package format which binds digital broadcasts with related data such as TV-anytime metadata, additional resources, and usage history to store and reuse them. To achieve that, we adopt MPEG-4 file format as a container and apply a binary format for scenes (BIFS) for representing usage history. In addition, TV-anytime metadata is used to describe broadcasts and to provide the additional resources, e.g., mp3s, jpeg images, as well. To verify the usefulness of the proposed format, we introduce an application scenario and test it on the scenario.