Patent ID: 7336891

Claim:
An information recording apparatus for converting video information, said apparatus comprising: a detection section configured to detect an attribute indicating whether a video signal conforming to a DVD-VR standard can be converted into a video signal conforming to a DVD-Video standard, based on the video signal conforming to the DVD-VR standard; a generation section configured to generate, based on the detection result of the detection section, conversion compatibility information indicating whether the video signal conforming to the DVD-VR standard can be converted into the video signal conforming to the DVD-Video standard; a recording section configured to record, as part of title information onto a memory area, the conversion compatibility information generated by the generation section, along with the video signal conforming to the DVD-VR standard; a reading section configured to read, from the memory area, the video signal conforming to the DVD-VR standard, and the title information; a determination section configured to determine whether the video signal conforming to the DVD-VR standard can be converted into the video signal conforming to the DVD-Video standard, based on the conversion compatibility information included in the title information read by the reading section from the memory area; and a conversion section configured to convert the video signal conforming to the DVD-VR standard into the video signal conforming to the DVD-Video standard, when the determination section determines that the video signal conforming to the DVD-VR standard can be converted into the video signal conforming to the DVD-Video standard.