Patent ID: 8036515

Claim:
A playback apparatus for playing back a stream sequence, comprising: a playback device; a package manager operable to, when storage locations for storing digital stream files, which constitute the stream sequence, are on separate recording media, including a rewritable recording medium, set a digital stream file recorded on the rewritable recording medium to an enable status of being recognizable by the playback device or to a disable status of being unrecognizable by the playback device; and an application executor operable to execute an application to control access to any of the recording media, wherein the playback device starts playing back the stream sequence if at least one of the digital stream files is in the enable status, while one of the at least one of the digital stream files is being played back by the playback device, the package manager changes a remaining digital stream file recorded on the rewritable recording medium, which is set to the disable status, to the enable status or a remaining digital stream file recorded on the rewritable recording medium, which is set to the enable status and is not being played back, to the disable status, according to a request from the application executor, the change to the enable status by the package manager includes changing an attribute of the remaining digital stream file recorded on the rewritable recording medium to a read-only attribute, and the change to the disable status by the package manager includes changing the attribute of the remaining digital stream file recorded on the rewritable recording medium to a rewritable attribute.