Patent ID: 8098975

Claim:
A video recording apparatus, comprising: a data acquisition section configured to acquire video data and audio data; an encoding section configured to compress the acquired video data and audio data to generate encoded video and audio data while setting a sequence of group of pictures for the acquired video data and audio data, and to subject the encoded video and audio data to time division multiplexing to output streaming data; and a recording section configured to record the streaming data on a recording medium, wherein with a predetermined number of groups of pictures corresponding to a cell in an optical disk format being set as a recording unit, the encoding section generates the streaming data by the time division multiplexing of the encoded video and audio data using fixed-data-length packs according to the optical disk format, the encoding section multiplexes to the streaming data specific information that includes information necessary for generating a navigation pack in the optical disk format without reproducing and analyzing the packs containing the encoded video and audio data, such that the specific information is assigned to each of the groups of pictures using a private pack in the streaming data, and the specific information contained in each of the groups of pictures includes position information that identifies a position of a top of a last group of pictures belonging to the immediately previous recording unit.