Patent ID: 7756392

Claim:
A recording apparatus for an optical disc that stores thereon moving image data composed of a plurality of pieces of picture data and pieces of reproduction section information that specify reproduction sections on the moving image data, the recording apparatus comprising: a reception unit operable to receive, from an operator, an operation to specify first reproduction section information that indicates a first reproduction section and second reproduction section information that indicates a second reproduction section; a duplication unit operable to duplicate an end vicinity of the first reproduction section and a beginning vicinity of the second reproduction section in order to obtain a duplicated part, the end vicinity being composed of a predetermined number of pieces of picture data, and the beginning vicinity being composed of a predetermined number of pieces of picture data; a writing unit operable, (i) when the duplicated part and temporary section information that specifies a reproduction section of the duplicated part are able to be written onto the optical disc, to write status information set to ON onto the optical disc, (ii) when the duplicated part and the temporary section information are not able to be written onto the optical disc, to write the status information set to OFF onto the optical disc, wherein the duplicated part is a group of pieces of picture data obtained by duplicating the end vicinity and the beginning vicinity, when the status information is set to ON, the first reproduction section information and the second reproduction section information show, to a reproduction apparatus, a reproduction path for reproducing a part before the end vicinity and a part after the beginning vicinity via the duplicated part, and when the status information is set to OFF, the first reproduction section information and the second reproduction section information show, to the reproduction apparatus, a reproduction path for sequentially reproducing the first reproduction section and the second reproduction section without using the duplicated part.