Patent ID: 8437609

Claim:
A non-transitory machine readable information recording medium for access by an information reproducing apparatus, the non-transitory machine readable information recording medium comprising: a first area in which a video file is recorded, the video file including a video object; and a second area including control information, the control information including cell time information, the cell time information describing information relating to the video object, the cell time information including information relating to time code, the control information specifying a first program chain, a second program chain and cells, the first program chain designating first reproduction order of one part of the cells, a first cell of the one part of cells referring first region of the video object, the second program chain information designating second reproduction order of other part of the cells, a second cell of the other part of cells referring second region of the video object, the first region being able to overlap with the second region, the control information including first program chain information representing the first program chain, the first program chain information including first information relating the first cell, the control information including second program chain information representing the second program chain, the second program chain information including second information relating the second cell, the first information and the second information containing information referring to the cell time information, the control information further including address information which indicates a start address of the video object, and the control information including first start time information on the first cell, and second start time information on the second cell, wherein the control information is read and provided to play back the video file by the information reproducing apparatus, and the video file is accessed according to the read control information.