Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding of a video multimedia application format including both video and metadata

The present invention relates to a encoding / decoding method and system of the video file, multimedia applications for the integration of video and metadata format. That is, the present invention provides a process of configuring a new video multimedia application format (Video Multimedia Application Format, Video MAF) for combining related multimedia content and metadata (metadata) and the video data, for efficient indexing (indexing) and search audio obtained from the video data and information (audio) / image (image) / motion (motion), and utilizing the feature information in the metadata of the video MAF file, video and metadata contained in the user MAF file according to the structure of the video MAF so that the data can be effectively browsing (browsing).