Patent ID: 7606466

Claim:
A recording apparatus for recording first video data and data which time-sequentially corresponds to said first video data onto a disc-shaped recording medium, comprising: a detecting device for detecting a change in format of at least one of the first video data, which is continuously supplied, and the data which is supplied to time-sequentially correspond to the first video data, a control unit for recording, when the detecting device detects a change in format, each of said first video data and said data which is supplied to time-sequentially correspond to said first video data divided at a position corresponding to said change onto said disc-shaped recording medium, wherein, when a change in format is detected during recording the first video data or the data which is supplied to time-sequentially correspond to the said first video data, a new directory is formed and recording of the data in the changed format is recorded in a file in the newly formed directory, and wherein mixture of different formats among the directories is permitted but the mixture of the different formats in the files stored in the new directory is not permitted.