Patent ID: 8437603

Claim:
A playback apparatus for reading a byte-code application from a recording medium on which an index table, an operation mode object, and the byte-code application are recorded, and performing a playback control in accordance with the byte-code application, comprising: a manager that selects a current title from a plurality of titles specified by the index table; a display controller that initializes a display rate of a display device by using display rate initialization information, including a display rate applied to playlist information specifying video data, in the operation mode object corresponding to the current title; a platform that starts the byte-code application indicated in an application management table in the operation mode object corresponding to the current title; a graphics plane that stores graphics data drawn by the byte-code application; and a playback controller that plays back the video data specified by the playlist information selected by the byte-code application, wherein the graphics data are output to the display device with the initialized display rate during a period from a starting of the byte-code application until a selection of the playlist information by the byte-code application, and wherein no video data is played back by the playback controller during the period.