A device and method for receiving and transmitting digital multimedia broadcasting is disclosed. The transmitting device includes an MPEG4 system including at least one of an ES_Descriptor of an audio object and an ES_Descriptor of a visual object at a set position of an Initial Object Descriptor (IOD) syntax, and encoding data indicated by the IOD using MPEG4 compression algorithms, and an MPEG2 system including the IOD in a Program Specific Information (PSI) table, and encoding the PSI table and data received from the MPEG4 system into an MPEG2 mode and transmitting the encoded data.