Patent ID: 8849778

Claim:
An apparatus for outputting a file based on the ISO base media file format comprising a media data container and a metadata container, the apparatus comprising: an error information providing device arranged to analyze a sequence of data samples in order to provide an error information related to a missing or corrupted data sample in the sequence of data samples; and a recorder device arranged to store the error information together with a sample number related to the missing or corrupted data sample in the metadata container of the file based on the ISO base media file format; wherein the metadata container comprises a sample table box, the sample table box comprising: a sample property description box that describes at least one error type and an associated error description index; and a sample-to-property box that maps only the missing or corrupted data samples to their respective error types using the associated error description index and the sample number related to the missing or corrupted data sample; the recorder device is arranged to store the provided error information together with the sample number in an error property metadata container allowing an allocation between the data sample and the provided error information, wherein the error property metadata container is comprised by a sample table container allowing an indexing from timing of a data sample to its associated sample number; and at least one of the error information providing device and the recorder device comprises a hardware implementation.