APPARATUSES FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DATA IN A MULTIMEDIA TRANSMISSION SYSTEM

Disclosed is a method for receiving media content in a multimedia system supporting a moving picture experts group, MPEG media transport, MMT, protocol, comprising the steps of receiving one or more MMT packets generated based on a media processing unit, MPU, the MPU being fragmented into one or more media fragment units, MFUs, each MMT packet including a MMT packet header and a MMT payload; and decoding said MMT packets, wherein payload data included in the MMT payload comprises one of MPU metadata of the MPU or media data element derived from the one or more MFUs and each of the one or more MMT packets comprises a data type field indicating that the respective payload data comprises the MPU metadata of the MPU in case that the MMT payload comprises the MPU metadata or indicating that the respective payload data comprises the media data element derived from said MFUs.