Patent ID: 6904227

Claim:
A method for editing video and/or audio data recorded in a disc storage medium, the method comprising the steps of: compressing and encoding video and/or audio data to be stored as titled files in the disc storage medium; storing the compressed, encoded video and/or audio data in the disc storage medium as a respective data file for each of said titled files, each said data file having plural blocks that each has a uniform length and plural frames of the compressed, encoded video and/or audio data; for each of said titled files, preparing a respective map file that includes address data for the blocks and frames of the respective said data file; inputting editing instructions for one of said title files that change the respective map file by deleting the address data for ones of the blocks to be edited out and changing the address data for the frames in ones of the blocks to be shortened by editing; and changing the respective map file based on the editing instructions.