In a computer environment, a new storage and delivery data format for
multimedia object sets increases performance and improves the user
experience by reducing the transactions needed to retrieve a set of n
objects from n to 1. The object data is interleaved with data definition
entries identifying respective object data into a data format comprising a
single stream for storage and/or delivery. The data format eliminates the
need for multiple, asynchronous transactions thus reducing latency in the
data transfer process. Moreover, the data format allows for optimization
of how the object data is prioritized and interleaved to achieve desired
performance objectives upon delivery of the multimedia objects.