Patent ID: 8073305
Filing Date: 2011-12-06
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of providing information for managing reproduction of video data, comprising: providing management information including a linking information for associating a metadata set with the video data and a metadata indicator for indicating whether the metadata set exists in a stream including at least a portion of the management information, the metadata set being a set of metadata and an additional information describing the video data and the linking information being used for identifying the metadata set associated with the video data, wherein the metadata indicator includes one of a first metadata indicator value indicating that the metadata set associated with the video data exists in the stream and a second metadata indicator value indicating that the metadata set associated with the video data does not exist in the stream wherein the metadata indicator is a flag, and wherein a single metadata set is capable of being associated with plural video data or plural metadata sets are capable of being associated with a single video data.