Patent ID: 8914822

Claim:
A method for controlling play-out of a media data stream at a receiving device, the media data stream comprising one or more programs, each program comprising one or more program components, the method comprising defining, for at least one program of said one or more programs or at least one program component of said one or more program components in the media data stream, a zone description that identifies a media zone for said at least one program or said at least one program component in the media data stream, wherein the media zone is a segment of the media data stream that has special properties, wherein the media data stream is a transport stream according to the Moving Pictures Expert Group-2 (MPEG-2) transport stream format, associating the zone description with a program specific information data segment, the program specific information data segment being a part of the media data stream and comprising data specifying information regarding said at least one program or said at least one program component, wherein the program specific information data segment is a Program Map Table (PMT) of the transport stream, wherein the zone description is included in a private table of the transport stream, and wherein the PMT is associated with the private table and the zone description included therein via a first Packet Identifier (PID), and transmitting the media data stream towards the receiving device.