Patent ID: 6392984
Filing Date: 2002-05-21
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
A recording medium comprising:an audio zone region for storing at least one audio object and audio title set information for managing the reproduction of the at least one audio object, wherein each of the at least one audio object includes a plurality of cells, each of the cells containing audio information in the form of an encoded audio stream, the audio title set information contains a plurality of sets of reproduction path information each indicating the order of reproducing the at least one audio object, the plurality of cells include a silent cell and an audio cell following the silent cell, the silent cell having audio information a variable amount of which is reproduced during a silent period, the audio cell having audio information to be reproduced after the silent period, the audio information included in the silent cell and the audio information included in the audio cell have been encoded in accordance with the same encoding type which is selected from a plurality of encoding types; and wherein each of the plurality of sets of reproduction path information includes reproduction order information indicating a reproduction order for reproducing the cells, location information indicating the location of each of the plurality of cells on the recording medium, and type information indicating the type of each of the plurality of cells, said types including a silent cell type and an audio cell type.