Patent ID: 8260112

Claim:
A recording apparatus, comprising: an arrival time information generator to add arrival time information of an arrival time of input packet data to each input packet data; a data stream information generator to generate data stream information for each of two or more data streams including the packet data to which the arrival time information of the respective packet data is added, the data stream information including seamless information, which indicates whether a corresponding data stream is to be seamlessly reproduced after playback of a preceding data stream, or the seamless information and seamless time control information to control an output time of the corresponding data stream to be seamlessly reproduced; and a recording controller to perform control such that the data streams are recorded in a first area of a recording medium and the data stream information is recorded in a second area of the recording medium, wherein the seamless time control information includes a reference time, offset information and/or gap length information, with the offset information being based on arrival times of packet data of the preceding data stream and being a value of a difference between an original arrival time of a first packet of the corresponding data stream to be seamlessly reproduced and an output time of the first packet of the corresponding data stream.