Patent ID: 7565452

Claim:
A system, comprising: a first storage adapted to store multimedia data files of a plurality of formats, a second storage adapted to store non-executable program descriptions comprising information specifying a transformation of multimedia data files of a first format into multimedia data files of a second format, wherein said first format is a format of said plurality of formats, a rendering device adapted to render multimedia data files of said second format, wherein at least one of said multimedia data files stored in said first storage is linked to at least one of said non-executable program descriptions, said one of said non-executable program descriptions comprising information regarding a transformation of multimedia data files of the format of said at least one of said multimedia data files into said second format, and at least one of said multimedia data files is a container data file comprising a plurality of further multimedia data files, said container data file being linked to a plurality of said non-executable program descriptions, wherein one of said plurality of said non-executable program descriptions specifies a transformation of the container data file, and wherein the other of said plurality of said non-executable program descriptions specify transformations of said further multimedia data files comprised within said container data file.