Patent ID: 7924834

Claim:
An optical disc comprising: a recording medium having recorded thereon multiplexed transport stream (TS) packets, wherein a plurality of TS packets in which audio data encoded by a first encoding method, which is a predetermined encoding method, are packetized and stored into TS packets, and a plurality of TS packets in which audio data encoded by a second encoding method, which is a variable-length encoding method, which differs from the first encoding method is multiplexed and recorded, said plurality of TS packets in which audio data is encoded by a second method includes a timing value indicating a timing used when audio data is decoded by a decoder in units of predetermined audio data, and wherein the TS packets are TS packets that are formatted to be multiplexed by a first system target decoder for decoding the audio data encoded by the first encoding method and a second system target decoder for decoding the audio data on the basis of the timing value attached to the audio data encoded by the second encoding method, wherein a TS packet is determined to be multiplexed from among the plurality of TS packets packetized by a packetization mechanism on the basis of a first elementary buffer possessed by the first system target decoder and a rate at which data is transferred to the first elementary buffer and on the basis of a second elementary buffer possessed by the second system target decoder and a rate at which data is transferred to the second elementary buffer.