Patent ID: 7197229

Claim:
A digital signal recording device comprising: a digital signal receiver which receives a digital signal in which a compressed video signal and a compressed audio signal are multiplexed in a packet form of a predetermined fixed length; a first clock generator which generates a clock which is in synchronism with the digital signal received by the digital signal receiver; an analog video signal input unit which inputs an analog video signal; an analog audio signal input unit which inputs an analog audio signal; a video A/D converter which converts the analog video signal inputted by the analog video signal input unit to a digital video signal; a video encoder which information-compresses the digital video signal converted by the video A/D converter; an audio A/D converter which converts the analog audio signal inputted from the analog audio signal input unit to a digital audio signal; an audio encoder which information-compresses the digital audio signal converted by the audio A/D converter; a second clock generator which generates an internal clock used by the video encoder and audio encoder; a multiplexer which multiplexes at least a compressed video signal compressed by the video encoder and a compressed audio signal compressed by the audio encoder, to produce a signal having the packet form; a recording selection unit which selects the digital signal received by the digital signal receiver or the signal multiplexed by the multiplexer; a clock selecting unit which outputs a selected one of the clock generated by the first clock generator or the internal clock generated by the second clock generator; a recording unit which adds, to each of signal packets of the selected digital signal selected by the recording selection unit, time information using the clock selected by the clock selecting unit so that, when playing back, time intervals for outputting reproduced signal packets are controlled; and wherein the digital signal recording device is operable in a first mode in which the received digital signal is recorded and in a second mode in which the multiplexed digital signal is recorded, and the clock selecting unit selects the clock inputted from the first clock generator in the first mode and selects the internal clock in the second mode.