Patent ID: 8290340

Claim:
An information processing apparatus for recording a record content onto an information recording medium, comprising: an encoder for performing an encoding operation on the record content, a data processor for performing a conversion operation for converting encoded data on the encoder into data having a predetermined record format, and a recording processor for recording onto the information recording medium the data having the predetermined record format generated by the data processor, at the end of a recording operation of a preceding record content, after the data processor performs a control operation (i) converting all encoded data obtained by performing the encoding operation on the preceding record content into a preceding record content having the predetermined record format, the predetermined record format containing a content file of the preceding record content having a predetermined unit, and (ii) recording the converted preceding record content in the predetermined record format on the information recording medium, and before the recording operation of the preceding record content ends, the data processor performing as part of the control operation, recording, in an attribute information storage file for the preceding record content, identification information of an attribute information storage file for a subsequent record content to be recorded next.