Patent ID: 7403695

Claim:
A computer-readable medium encoded with a computer program, said medium comprising: a data area configured to store video data; and a management area configured to store control information, the control information including: program chain information associated with one of a plurality of program chains, said program chain information describing an order of reproduction of individual cells, plural cells of the cells being able to form a program, another one of the program chains being able to be identified by a representative picture, and a table including at least one representative picture relating information, the representative picture relating information including, information corresponding to a portion of said another one of the program chains, said representative picture identifying said another one of the program chains, and information corresponding to a location of said representative picture in said data area, the location information including time information or address information, wherein, said representative picture is a picture included in said video data, and a portion of said one of the program chains and another portion of said another one of the program chains are configured to refer to a same portion of the video data.