Patent ID: 6792198
Filing Date: 2004-09-14
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
A method for recording received predetermined-sized transport stream units in predetermined-sized sectors, comprising the steps of:(a) determining whether to divide a single transport unit to record it across two consecutive sectors; (b) creating header information of a preceding sector of the two including management information which is created in the basis of one-to-one correspondence with each transport stream unit to be recorded within the sector, based upon the determining result of said step (a); (c) comparing sizes of the created header information and the received transport units to be recorded with the size of a sector; (d) appending a invalid header data to the created header information to prevent a conflict in the correspondence between each transport stream unit to be recorded in the preceding sector and its management information, based upon the compared result; and (e) recording information indicating whether the invalid head data is appended or not in the header information of the preceding sector.