This document establishes a method of conveying data for a wide range of applications that require the efficient transmission of point to multi-point data over potentially unreliable broadcast channels. It is also suitable for point-to-point and multicast applications and may easily be encapsulated in Internet Protocol.

This document describes the basic capabilities of the generation 2 TPEG (TPEG2) for providing a multiplex of TPEG Services and applications. Together with the definitions of the general TPEG UML modelling rules and the particular physical TPEG representations for TPEG-binary streams (TISA: TPEG UML Conversion Rules) and tpegML files (TISA Specification: TPEG UML Conversion Rules), it replaces the former documents TPEG-INV and TPEG-SSF.