Patent ID: 8494342
Filing Date: 2013-07-23
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A recording apparatus which records a stream onto a storage medium, the stream being made up of a plurality of packets and having sets of control information inserted therein, the recording apparatus comprising: a control information decoding section which decodes the control information; a random access information analyzing section which carries out analysis of locations of random access points of media items contained in the stream, on the basis of at least one of (a) the control information, (b) head identification information contained in the packets, and (c) type information contained in a head of each frame of the stream; a management information generating section which generates management information for managing a plurality of random access points contained in the stream, on the basis of the decoded control information and the locations of the random access points obtained by the analysis; and a recording control section which records the stream and the generated management information onto the storage medium, wherein the management information generating section generates the management information that holds sets of information respectively indicative of the locations of the random access points having identical random access types, wherein an order of arrangement of the sets of information corresponds to a temporal order of the corresponding random access points in the stream.