Patent ID: 8214412

Claim:
A playlist editing apparatus for editing a playlist and that is used in a system in which the playlist is defined as a unit for managing video data on a recording media disk, the apparatus comprising: a computing device; a management unit that manages information on the playlist corresponding to individual video data, wherein the playlist defines attributes including a playlist name and a character code flag showing a character code of the playlist name; a playlist name input unit for a user to newly set a playlist name for the playlist; a determination unit that determines whether character code conversion of the newly set playlist name for the playlist managed by the management unit is required, based on a relationship with a character code of the newly set playlist name with the playlist name input unit; a changing unit that changes the character code flag being set for the playlist on which the determination was performed to the character code flag corresponding to the character code to be converted to, when the determination unit determines that character code conversion is required; a character code conversion unit that converts a character string targeted for conversion to a designated character code, when the character code flag of the playlist is changed by the changing unit; and a playlist name setting unit that sets the character string that has been character code-converted by the character code conversion unit as the playlist name.