Patent ID: 7130532

Claim:
A video recording/reproducing apparatus for recording various video data as files in a recording/reproducing disk and reproducing the recorded video data so that they are displayed on a screen, comprising: a display section for displaying a list of video files previously recorded in said recording/reproducing disk as a recording menu screen or a reproducing menu screen; a selecting section for selecting either one of said recording menu screen and said reproducing menu screen; a recording control section which enters a recording programming mode to display the recording menu screen on said display section when the recording menu screen is selected by said selecting section, and displays a recording programming screen on said display section to enable recording programming when any optional video file is selected from the list on said recording menu screen; and a reproducing control section which enters a reproducing mode to display said reproducing menu screen on said display section, when said reproducing menu screen is selected by said selecting section, and reproduces the video data recorded in any optional file when said optional file is selected from the list on said reproducing menu screen, wherein said recording control section records the video data in an area of the video file selected from said recording menu screen during a recording operation, and when the recording operation is not completed even when the video data is recorded until said area becomes full, continuously records the video data in a vacant area of said recording/reproducing disk.