Patent ID: 7974516

Claim:
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having a data structure for managing reproduction of still images, comprising: a data area storing a first clip stream file and a second clip stream file, the first clip stream file including video data for reproducing the still images including a first still image and a second still image, the second clip stream file including audio data; a playlist area storing at least one playlist file, the playlist file including mark information and at least one playitem and at least one sub-playitem, the mark information providing presentation information on the second still image to provide for at least skipping from reproducing the first still image to reproducing the second still image, the playitem indicating an in-time and an out-time of the first clip stream file for reproducing the first and second still images, the sub-playitem indicating an in-time and an out-time of the second clip stream file for reproducing the audio data, the playitem managing the first and the second still images and the sub-playitem managing the audio data so as to permit independent reproduction of the first and the second still images and the audio data, the playitem including a format indicator indicating a coding format of the first clip stream file, the playlist file including type information indicating whether or not the audio data associated with the sub-playitem is usable for the still images, and the playlist file including first still information indicating whether to display at least one still image for one of a finite and an infinite period of time; and a management area storing at least a first clip information file and a second clip information file, the first clip information file including mapping information between a presentation time and a unit of the first clip stream file, the second clip information file including mapping information between a presentation time and a unit of the second clip stream file, the first and second clip information files corresponding to the first and second clip stream files, respectively.