Patent ID: 7415195
Filing Date: 2008-08-19
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A machine readable information recording medium embodied as a recordable optical disc for access by an optical disc drive comprising: a first area in which a video file, a still picture file and a still picture-added audio file are recorded, the video file including video object, the video object having object units, the object units containing video data or audio data, and an audio part in the still picture-added audio file being used in combination with a video part in the still picture file; and a second area in which a management file is recorded, the management file existing as long as any contents being included in the video file, the still picture file, or the still picture-added audio file, said management file including management information, the management information being used for recording, reproducing, or editing said contents, the management information including a still picture AV file information table describing information on the still picture file and the still picture-added audio file, said management information including object information search pointers and a plurality of object information, the object information search pointers corresponding to object information search pointer numbers respectively, a plurality of the object information corresponding to the object information search pointer numbers respectively and including a plurality of time map information, said management information including a plurality of cell information, a plurality of the cell information representing respective cells, a plurality of said cell information including a plurality of information on the object information search pointer numbers, the cells referring to a plurality of the time map information, the management information including original program chain information and user-defined program chain information, the original program chain information designating a fixed reproduction order of one part of the cells, the user-defined program chain information designating a reproduction order of other part of the cells, and the fixed reproduction order of said one part of the cells being different from the reproduction order of the other part of the cells; and a third area in which a back up file for said management file is recorded, and said management file, said back up file, said video file, said still picture file, and said still picture-added audio file being stored under a DVD_RTR directory, wherein the management information is read and provided to control recording, playing back, or editing the video file by an information recording/reproducing apparatus, the video file is accessed according to the management information.