Patent ID: 8270817
Filing Date: 2012-09-18
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A recording apparatus for recording a digital stream and playback path information onto a recording medium, the digital stream being multiplexed with a video stream and an audio stream, and the playback path information indicating a plurality of playback paths of the digital stream, the recording apparatus comprising: an extension attribute section setting unit operable to, when a first extended control is valid only for a specific one of the playback paths, set first marker information indicative of a start location of the first extended control within the specific playback path, the first marker information being set in response to a user operation of interrupting playback; an extension attribute section detection unit operable to, when a second extended control is valid uniformly for a plurality of playback paths, uniformly set second marker information indicative of a start location of the second extended control within each of the plurality of playback paths; and a record controlling unit operable to record on the recording medium the digital stream and the playback path information, wherein the first extended control is a playback control to resume playback from a position where the user interrupted playback, and the second extended control is a playback control to start playback from a position in the digital stream where a predetermined scene is skipped.