Patent ID: 7680392

Claim:
A streaming contents recording method of a mobile terminal comprising: comparing a length of streaming contents corresponding to an MP4 contents file with a remaining memory capacity of the mobile terminal, said comparing including acquiring supplementary information from a user data atom included in a header of the streaming contents and determining one or more frame types to be omitted based on the supplementary information and the remaining memory capacity of the mobile terminal; and recording the streaming contents by omitting said one or more frame types if the length of the streaming contents is greater than the memory capacity, wherein: the frame types include I, B, and P frame types, the supplementary information includes first information indicating a length of the streaming contents with B frames omitted and second information indicating a length of the streaming contents with B and P frames omitted, and said recording includes recording only I and P frames of the streaming contents based on the first information or recording only I frames of the steaming contents based on the second information, wherein said comparing is performed by a controller.