Patent ID: 8422863
Filing Date: 2013-04-16
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A video information playback method of playing back a virtual-machine-using content from a recording medium by a video information playback device; the recording medium having thereon: a virtual machine; one or more virtual-machine-using contents whose video playback can be controlled by a program running in a virtual machine; and a program for determining whether each of the one or more virtual-machine-using contents is a first type content capable of being played back either when the program running in the virtual machine is activated or deactivated, or a second type content capable of being played back only when the program running in the virtual machine is activated; the method comprising the steps of: determining whether the virtual-machine-using content is the first type content or the second type content when a playback stop instruction to stop playback of a virtual-machine-using content currently being played back is given from a user, thereby recording information of the determining in a memory of the video information playback device; reading the information of the determining regarding the virtual-machine-using content to be playback-resumed when a playback resume instruction is inputted to the video information playback device, thereby determining whether the virtual-machine-using content to be playback-resumed is the first type content or the second type content; and resuming playback from a playback stop position without activating the program running in the virtual machine if the virtual-machine-using content to be playback-resumed is determined to be the first type content, and resuming playback after activating the program running in the virtual machine if the virtual-machine-using content to be playback-resumed is determined to be the second type content.