Patent ID: 8625398

Claim:
An information processing apparatus comprising: circuitry configured to perform a data recording process on a recording medium; determine whether or not data-to-be-recorded in the recording medium is standard compliant data compliant with a first application standard; select a first directory set in the recording medium for recording the first application standard compliant data as a recording destination on a priority basis when the data-to-be-recorded is the standard compliant data; select a second directory different from the first directory as a recording destination when the data-to-be-recorded is standard non-compliant data and performs a data recording process; create or renew management information to be applied to a reproduction by a virtual file system in which the recorded data in the first and second directories are consolidated and performs a process of recording the created or renewed management information in the recording medium; and perform, when recording of the data-to-be-reproduced whose recording destination is a directory different from the first directory is executed, a process of adding an entry including a file name indicating recording destination of the data-to-be-reproduced and a file name on the virtual file system in one-to-one correspondence in a file name conversion table included in the management information.