An error correction encoding and/or decoding apparatus and method of a
digital dual-stream broadcast transmission and/or reception system. An
error correction encoding apparatus includes a TRS encoding part to apply
the transversal encoding to normal data packets and robust data packets
and to append parity packets to the normal data packet and robust data
packet, a randomization unit to randomize the data packets and the parity
packets according to a predetermined pattern, an RS encoding unit to
append parities to the randomized data packets and parity packets, a
packet format unit to split the data packets and the parity packets into
normal data and robust data and to process the normal and robust data,
and a system control unit to control the packet format unit. Accordingly,
a robust error correction encoding apparatus can be provided for the
digital dual-stream broadcast transmission system to which Transversal
Reed-Solomon (TRS) encoding is applied.