The MPEG-4 specifications have provided substantial advances in many areas of multimedia technology. In MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 System Specifications referred only to overall architecture, multiplexing, demultiplexing and synchronization of elementary streams. The MPEG-4 specification goes beyond these areas to encompass content description, interactivity, and scene description to name a few. This paper only addresses the overall architecture, multiplexing and synchronization of MPEG-4 content when carried in a system that already supports MPEG-2 Transport Stream.