Patent ID: 7643725
Filing Date: 2010-01-05
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A recording medium storing a data structure for managing reproduction of at least video data representing multiple reproduction paths, comprising: a data area storing a transport stream of at least video data, the transport stream being divided into transport packets, the transport packets of different reproduction paths being stored as separate files from one another such that different reproduction paths represent different video data, and a navigation area storing a first navigation unit, the first navigation unit including one or more second navigation units and controlling a reproduction order of the second navigation units, at least one second navigation unit referencing more than one third navigation unit and including a single flag, the value of the single flag indicating that either the corresponding at least one second navigation unit is provided for the multiple reproduction paths or the corresponding at least one second navigation unit is provided for a single reproduction path, the at least one second navigation unit including connection information linking a start time of the at least one second navigation unit and an end time of a previous second navigation unit, each third navigation unit not including video data and associated with a different one of the multiple reproduction paths and identifying the separate file of video data in the data area to reproduce.