Abstract:
There is provided a communication for transmitting a first stream (intermittent data section) for burst-transmitting a packet set and a second stream (continuous data section) for transmitting a packet at a speed based on the transmission speed required for service. Upon selection of a service, a second stream for the selected service is received and reproduced until the intermittent data transmitted in the first stream is received. When transmission of the intermittent data on the selected service is started in the first stream, reception and reproduction of the first stream are started.
Abstract:
The time slice system has a problem that, since data is burst transmitted, a wait time occurs, during tuning, until a reproduction of a service starts, with the result that zapping cannot be smoothly performed. In order to solve this problem, a first stream for burst transmitting a packet set and a second stream for continuously transmitting a packet at a rate suitable for a transmission rate required for a service are multiplexed with each other and then transmitted. During zapping, the second stream, which is constantly transmitted, is used to reproduce the contents, and after a completion of the zapping, the first stream, in which the packet is burst transmitted, is reproduced.