Patent ID: 8098974

Claim:
A method of format converting and recording for optical storage media, comprising: loading and mapping a plurality of files of a plurality of directories of a first optical storage medium to a plurality of files of a plurality of directories of a second optical storage medium for generating a plurality of corresponding navigation tables, wherein said first optical storage medium and said second optical storage medium have different Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) data compression formats, wherein a quantity of said plurality of navigation tables corresponds with a quantity of said plurality of files of said first optical storage medium; sending a plurality of AVSEQ files of an MPEGAV directory of said first optical storage medium to a video object stream of said second optical storage medium; sending a plurality of AUDIO files of a CDDA directory of said first optical storage medium to said video object stream of said second optical storage medium if said first optical storage medium has said CDDA directory; sending a plurality of ITEM files of a SEGMENT directory of said first optical storage medium to said video object stream of said second optical storage medium if said first optical storage medium has said ITEM directory; creating a management file in said second optical storage medium for saving said plurality of corresponding navigation tables, wherein said management file has different storage location and filename when version of format is included; and recording audio and video data of said first optical storage medium into said second optical storage medium.