Disclosed herein is a transmitting apparatus, including: a stream inputting portion inputting plural transport streams; an information adding portion adding additional information containing therein a stream identifier used to identify at least corresponding transport stream to respective transport stream packets of the plural transport streams thus inputted; a stream synthesizing portion synthesizing the plural transport streams in which the additional information is added to each of the transport stream packets, thereby obtaining one stream; and a stream transmitting portion transmitting the resulting one stream to an external apparatus. The information adding portion adds the additional information forward, backward or midway with respect to each of the transport stream packets.