Patent ID: 7646965

Claim:
A digital storage medium storing a data structure for managing reproduction from the digital storage medium by a reproducing apparatus, comprising: a data area storing audiovisual data; and a management area storing management information including linking information for associating a metadata set with the audiovisual data and a flag for indicating whether or not the metadata set associated with the audiovisual data exists in a same stream as a stream including at least a portion of the management information, the metadata set being additional information describing the audiovisual data wherein the flag includes one of a first flag value indicating that the metadata set associated with the audiovisual data exists in the same stream as the stream including the at least a portion of the management information and a second flag value indicating that the metadata set associated with the audiovisual data does not exist in the same stream as the stream including the at least a portion of the management information, wherein the linking information is used by the reproducing apparatus for identifying the metadata set associated with the audiovisual data, wherein the metadata set is retrieved using the linking information if the flag is the first flag value, and wherein a single metadata set is configured for association with plural audiovisual data.