Patent ID: 7367041

Claim:
An information compressing and recording device provided with a first information inputting means for inputting first information including images and sounds, a second information inputting means for inputting second information to supplement the first information, a compression coding ratio setting table for determining a compression coding ratio of the first information, a second information decoding portion for decoding the second information inputted to the second information decoding portion, a compression coding ratio control portion for retrieving in the compression coding ratio setting table by using a part of the decoded second information, determining the compression coding ratio of the first information and controlling the compression coding of the first information, a compression coding portion for compressively encoding the first information under the control of the compression coding control portion, and a compression definition data adding portion, wherein the first information compressed by the compression coding portion is provided with the compression definition data attached to the first information by the compression definition data adding portion and then recorded on a recording portion, wherein in case of recording a program set to be recorded in a time shift mode and in a reserved video recording mode, the program is recorded with priority of compression coding ratio set for reserved video recording.