Patent ID: 8229273

Claim:
A recording-and-reproducing apparatus for reproducibly controlling data recorded on a recording medium, comprising: means for acquiring control information required for reproducing the data when the data is recorded; means for controlling operations during a period from the start to the end of recording data on the recording medium; means for determining whether a recorded file of the data exceeds a predetermined limit of a storage capacity of a file system in the recoding medium and sequentially generating a subsequent recorded file upon exceeding the limit; means for generating a single recording-and-reproducing unit during the period from the start to the end of recording data on the recording medium indicated by the control means based on a plurality of recorded files, which are sequentially generated by the determining and generating means upon exceeding the limit; and means for updating the control information by recording the single recording-and-reproducing unit generated by the recording-and-reproducing unit generation means on the control information by adding to the control information locations of a take-info file, a not-real-time metadata file, and one or more clip information files for controlling clips included in the single recording-and-reproducing unit.