Abstract: Systems and methods for data formats which facilitate the encapsulation, transmission, reception, decomposition and processing of heterogeneous sets of data are disclosed. Data may be encoded in one of these data formats, and sent to a recipient, which decodes the data format and renders the data. These data formats may consist of the concatenation of a set of commands, each of these commands in turn composed of a tag, length and a payload. Furthermore, these data formats may provide a compact way to deliver information which allows the rendering of video, images, caption audio as well as user interaction functionality, while simultaneously reducing the computational complexity required of the recipient to decode the data format and render the varying types of data.