A digital television receiver for use in a digital television broadcast
system in which a plurality of digital television data streams can be
provided in respective streams of television broadcast packets forming
the lowest layer of a layered digital television structure and also in
respective streams of Internet protocol packets forming the lowest layer
of a layered Internet protocol structure, at least the streams of
television broadcast packets being broadcast with a plurality of tables
indicating where data of one layer of one structure can be found in
another layer of one or other of the two structures, the received
plurality of tables being used to determine where data contained in one
layer can be found in an adjacent layer so as to construct tree
structures or a new table allowing determination of in which stream of
television broadcast packets the television data of a selected stream of
Internet protocol packets is found. A two-stage process for identifying
an alternative stream with television broadcast packets containing the
same television programme is also proposed in which, first, identical
transport streams are looked for and, second, the stream of Internet
protocol packets containing the television programme are used to identify
alternative streams of television broadcast packets containing the same
television programme.