Patent ID: 6374038
Filing Date: 2002-04-16
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
A digital tape recorder comprising:(i) means for recording video material onto video sections of a digital tape, each said video section including a contiguous data section representing a plurality of video pictures which are compressed into a multiple of groups of pictures; and (ii) means for recording digital cataloguing data associated with said video material onto cataloguing data sections longitudinally interspersed between video sections on said digital tape such that said cataloguing data appears intermittenly on said tape and not within each track recorded on said tape, said cataloguing data including for each said video section a file recorded on said tape at a position following said video section and providing the information necessary for recreating a database entry concerning the material recorded on said digital video tape; whereby said file is stored in a database section of said tape and said file does not include a copy of said database entry.