Patent ID: 7574118

Claim:
An information recording medium configured to have data recorded thereon by a recording apparatus and data reproduced therefrom by a reproducing apparatus, said data including management information used to access a stream object for at least one of recording and reproducing the data by at least one of the recording apparatus and the reproducing apparatus and bitstream information including I-picture information of MPEG, wherein a first data unit is defined as a pair of a transport packet of 188 bytes and a time stamp appended to the transport packet, a second data unit is defined as a data unit of stream blocks or stream object units, and a third data unit is defined as an object data of said stream object, said information recording medium comprising: a data area configured to record the bitstream information, including said third data unit including one or more said second data units each including one or more said first data units; and a management area configured to record the management information of the bitstream information, wherein said management information includes access unit data including, time information of an access unit corresponding to the I-picture information, and position information of the access unit.