Patent ID: 6925248

Claim:
A recordable information recording medium for storing at least one video object and management information for managing the video object, the video object and the management information recorded by a recording apparatus, wherein: the management information includes type information and object information, the type information and the object information corresponding to each stored video object; the type information indicates a type of the video object, the type indicating whether a video object is generated by self-encoding in the recording apparatus; and the object information includes a plurality of kinds of information in a form depending on the type of the associated video object, the plurality of kinds of information including map information for obtaining an address of a playback section of the video object on the recordable information recording medium, the map information for conversion between time domain or a position and address domain based on the type of the video object having playback times and playback sections of the video objects to be reproduced at the respective playback times.