Patent ID: 7313319

Claim:
An information storage medium for reading by a computer device and having recorded video data including a plurality of unit compressed video data portions correlated with successive periods on a time axis and each of which is reproducible by the computer device independently of each other, the medium comprising: sectors, each having a sector head, a plurality of video data recording areas, each of the plurality of video data recording areas recording divided video data including a data head, one or more integer number of the unit compressed video data portions correlated with successive periods on the time axis, and a total data amount of the one or more integer number of the unit compressed video data portions being not more than a predetermined data amount, and a table recording area including a recorded table indicating correspondence between time position information of the divided video data and positional information of the sectors on which the unit compressed video data portions are recorded, wherein the divided video data is recorded in each of the plurality of video data recording areas such that the data head of the divided video data coincides with the head of a sector of the sectors on the information storage medium.