Patent ID: 8335426

Claim:
In a recording apparatus which multiplexes video data and audio data and records the resultant data to a record medium, characterized in that the recording apparatus comprises: a data input section in which video data and audio data are input; a record command input section in which a record start command and a record stop command for the video data and the audio data are input; a recording section which multiplexes the video data and the audio data in a unit of a packet and successively records a multiplexed stream to a stream file on the record medium in the unit of the packet; a management information creating section which creates a stream information file which associates at least reproduction time information of the stream file recorded on the record medium with address information thereof and a reproduction list file which stores at least one record of reproduction region data which represents a reproduction region which is set with a reproduction start point and a reproduction end point of the stream file, the reproduction list file being capable of storing mark information which represents reproduction time information of the stream file; and a control section including a central processing unit which controls the recording section and the management information creating section, the control section controls the recording section to start and stop recording of the stream to the stream file according to the record start command and the record stop command to the record command input section, and when information which represents an attribute of the stream file does not satisfy a predetermined restriction with a predetermined unit composed of one or a plurality of the packets recorded to the stream file, the control section controls the recording section to close the stream file, newly create the stream file, and successively record the stream file to the new stream file starting from the predetermined unit, and based on the record stop command to the record command input section, the control section controls the recording section such that reproduction time of beginning of the video data of the stream file matches reproduction time of beginning of the audio data of the stream file and reproduction time of last end of the audio data is later than reproduction time of last end of the video data.