Patent ID: 6336002
Filing Date: 2002-01-01
Classification: F02B,G11B,H04N,Y02T

Abstract:
An optical disc comprising a title area and a manager area, whereinthe title area stores a plurality of video titles, each of which include route information and a plurality of pieces of video information retrieved according to the route information, wherein there are three types of video titles within the plurality of video titles including a first type, a second type, and a third type, with video titles of the first type being retrieved according to only one piece of route information, video titles of the second type being retrieved according to a plurality of pieces of route information and branch information, and video titles of the third type being retrieved according to a plurality of pieces of route information without any branch information, and wherein the manager area includes: an address management information area for storing a plurality of pieces of address management information each of which include an address of one of the plurality of video titles; and a playback type information area for storing a plurality of pieces of playback type information, wherein the plurality of pieces of playback type information correspond to the plurality of pieces of address management information, each of the plurality of pieces of playback type information including a first flag and a second flag, of which the first flag indicates whether a corresponding video title is retrieved according to a piece of route information or according to a plurality of pieces of route information, and the second flag indicates whether the route information of the corresponding video title includes the branch information.