Patent ID: 7420902

Claim:
A device for recording information in a track in a recordable area on a record carrier, said device comprising: recording means for recording marks representing the information; and control means for controlling recording by said recording means of digitally encoded video information in segments in the track and of playback information for controlling the playback of the segments, wherein said control means comprises: error detection means for detecting recording errors; and bridging means for creating, in the event of a detected recording error, a bridge segment replacing the recorded video between an exit point in a segment before the detected recording error and an entry point in a segment after the recording error, said control means controlling said recording means to record bridging playback information for controlling to reproduce the encoded video up to the exit point via the bridge segment and continuing at the entry point, and to record the bridge segment in a location in the track different from a location of the detected recording error, wherein the recording errors are logical errors in the digitally encoded video information, wherein the error detection means comprises means for detecting logical errors in the digitally encoded video information, and wherein the logical errors in the digitally encoded video information comprise discontinuities in time indicators included in a continuous stream of digitally encoded video information.