Patent ID: 8249415

Claim:
A non-transitory information recording medium on which a stream is recorded, the stream having plural access units and including at least one of video and audio, wherein each of the access units has basic data and extension data related to the basic data; the basic data is audio data that can be decoded into a completed state without requiring the extension data, and the extension data is audio data for improving the quality of data generated from the basic data; the basic data is composed as a first Packetized Elementary Stream (PES) packet, the extension data is composed as a second PES packet, and a PES is configured by the first PES packet and the second PES packet; the basic data is compliant with a digital interface standard of SPDIF; the extension data is not compliant with the digital interface standard of SPDIF; the first PES packet and the second PES packet are stored separately in TS packets defined by MPEG2-TS such that the basic data and the extension data can be separated per TS packet; the access unit supports DTS++ by having the basic data and the extension data; and a stream including the TS packets includes information to identify whether the stream supports DTS++.