Patent ID: 7343089

Claim:
An information processing apparatus which inserts conversion information, used for conversion of a DVD-Video-Recording format into a DVD-Video format, into predetermined information, when recording the predetermined information as video information based on the DVD-Video-Recording format, the information processing apparatus comprising: an encoder configured to encode the predetermined information into first video information based on the DVD-Video-Recording format; an insertion section configured to insert the conversion information used to encode the first video information into second video information based on the DVD-Video format into the first video information encoded by the encoder, the inserted conversion information including at least one of MNF_ID as a flag indicative of whether or not the conversion information or editing information exists, VERSION indicative of a type of the conversion information, VOBU — 2NDREF_EA as a final address of a second reference picture, VOBU — 3RDREF_EA as a final address of a third reference picture, and VOBU_A_SYNCA as an address of A_PCK containing an audio frame to be reproduced immediately after a video start time; and a recording section which records the first video information, in which the conversion information is inserted by the insertion section, on a storage area of an information recording medium.