Patent ID: 8452162

Claim:
A method of recording an encoded bit stream, said encoded bit stream representing a plurality of video objects comprising a sequence of cells together constituting a part of an MPEG2 Program Stream on a disc, said method comprising the acts: recording a collection of contiguously arranged video objects in a video object storage area of said disc; recording management information in a management information area of said disc for storing information about the recorded video objects, wherein said collection is partitioned into adjacent recordings that represent playable titles; defining a playable title as a playback sequence of all complete cells or a subset of complete cells of a recording in an order of allocation within the video object storage area on the disc; and generating a title list of titles sorted in the order of allocation within the video object storage area on the disc, creating two titles for the recording, the two titles including a full title and a play list title, and in response to deleting two consecutive full titles, combining play lists related to the two consecutive full titles and tagging the combined play lists as free space.