Patent ID: 7024103

Claim:
A method for reproducing real-time data from an information recording medium comprising a volume space for at least recording in sectors a file comprising data and file management information for managing the file, wherein: the real-time data comprises at least one of video data and audio data; the real-time data is recorded in at least one real-time extent each of which is allocated with logically contiguous sectors within the volume space; a linking loss extent for recording invalid data is positioned before each of the at least one real-time extent; and the at least one real-time extent comprises a linking gap, wherein the linking gap is a region which overwrites an already-recorded area through appending, wherein the method comprises the steps of: determining whether or not the file recorded on the information recording medium is a real-time file containing the real-time data; and performing a reproduction operation for the real-time data recorded in the at least one real-time extent, the reproduction operation being continuously performed without performing a recovery process even if a reproduction error due to invalid data recorded in the linking gap occurs.