Patent ID: 6122436
Filing Date: 2000-09-19
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
An optical disc that is reproducible by a reproducing apparatus having a decoder buffer, decoder, and output section, said optical disc having recorded theretoa video part stream comprising a plurality of units containing still picture data for at least one picture, andan audio part stream comprising one or a plurality of units containing audio data to be reproduced with the still picture data;wherein said units store time stamp information indicative of a time required for a decoding process and output,said time stamp information includes a time SCR2 indicative of a time at which the last unit in the video part stream is input to a decoder buffer, anda time SCR3 indicative of a time at which the first unit in the audio part stream is input to a decoder buffer, andsaid times SCR2 and SCR3 are defined to satisfy the following equation:SCR2+Tp.ltoreq.SCR3where Tp is the time required from the start to the end of inputting one unit to a decoder buffer.