Patent ID: 7668437

Claim:
A recording apparatus for recording video data to a recording medium, said recording apparatus comprising: encoding means for encoding the video data in accordance with a compression-encoding process; converting means for converting a data structure of the encoded video data received from said encoding means into a file structure that allows a moving picture to be synchronously reproduced by computer software without a need to use specially dedicated hardware; and recording means for recording the data having said file structure to the recording medium; wherein the file structure has a first data unit and a second data unit; wherein a plurality of first data units and a plurality of second data units are matched with a successive record length, wherein each second data unit is adjacent to a corresponding first data unit, wherein a successive record length is a length of data that is recorded to the recording medium without a jumping operation; and reading means for reading data from a memory, wherein the data is written successively to the memory and is intermittently read when a transfer rate of the encoding means is lower than a transfer rate of the data recorded on the recording medium to prevent underflow and overflow of the recording medium.