Patent ID: 8285125

Claim:
A recording apparatus comprising: a receive unit configured to receive at least one reproduction section of digital stream, the digital stream being recorded on a recording medium; and a write unit configured to generate, when at least two pieces of the reproduction section are received, a duplicated part by duplicating an end vicinity of the digital stream corresponding to a preceding reproduction section and a beginning vicinity of the digital stream corresponding to a subsequent reproduction section, the preceding reproduction section and the subsequent reproduction section being of the two pieces of the reproduction section, and link information including a starting position for the end vicinity in the preceding reproduction section and an ending position for the beginning vicinity in the subsequent reproduction section, and write the generated duplicated part and a flag, wherein the duplicated part is modified to connect the end vicinity and the beginning vicinity seamlessly, the flag indicates whether to reproduce a part before the end vicinity and a part after the beginning vicinity via the duplicated part by using the link information, or to reproduce the digital stream corresponding to the preceding reproduction section and the digital stream corresponding to the subsequent reproduction section without reproducing the duplicated part, when the flag indicates to reproduce the part before the end vicinity and the part after the beginning vicinity via the duplicated part, the starting position shows a point where to transition from the preceding reproduction section to a start of the duplicated part, and the ending position shows a point where to transition from an end of the duplicated part to the subsequent reproduction section, the starting position included in the link information is positioned after a starting point of the preceding reproduction section and is positioned before an ending point of the preceding reproduction section, and the ending position included in the link information is positioned after a starting point of the subsequent reproduction section and is positioned before an ending point of the subsequent reproduction section.