Coded multimedia content and / or reproducing method and apparatus

The multimedia content encoded and / or reproducing method and apparatus. The multimedia content encoded method includes the steps of separating the media data and meta-data from the multimedia contents; Steps by using the separated metadata to create metadata for the predetermined multimedia application format (MAF); And encodes the metadata for the MAF and its media data, it characterized in that it comprises the step of generating a MAF file including a header, meta data and media data including information indicating that the media data. According to the present invention, a digital picture, and in the process to the other integrating multimedia content into a single configuration to the application files called MAF, various hint feature information for the visual feature information, the effective index of the picture obtained from the contents of the picture data, the photographic image include as metadata, and by including them how content utilization based on metadata ever tool or a special application to the user, even if they do not include the ability to leverage metadata, integration can browse multimedia content efficiently the universal consumption of multimedia content are possible.