MPEG-TABLE STRUCTURE

FIELD: digital television systems, in particular, a data structure, MPEG-table and methods related to these data and/or MPEG-tables. ^ SUBSTANCE: in accordance to the invention, transport data stream is claimed for transmission through a communication channel, receipt and processing by receiver-decoder, which contains a table which contains header (400) and informational part, featuring the informational part of the table having descriptors (406), corresponding to first cycle (408) of descriptors, and variable length cycle (410) with data elements (412), each one of which includes a data element identifier and cycle (414) of descriptors, containing descriptors (416) which are unique for given data element (412), where informational part of the table includes second header (404) and second informational part, and aforementioned second header (404) includes at least one of the following: information which concerns compression of given table; information which concerns encryption of given table; information which concerns priority; information which concerns the format of syntactical analysis; a filter expansion field. ^ EFFECT: ensured universality of data structures used for transferring information in digital television systems. ^ 6 cl, 14 dwg, 33 tbl