Patent ID: 8145035

Claim:
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a subtitle stream to be played back in synchronization with a video stream and PlayList information, wherein the PlayList information includes main playback section information and sub playback section information, the main playback section information includes information that indicates a playback start point and a playback end point of the video stream, and a stream number table, the sub playback section information includes information that indicates a playback start point and a playback end point of a subtitle stream and synchronization information that indicates a synchronization time at which the subtitle stream synchronizes with the video stream, the stream number table includes an entry arrangement of a plurality of entries corresponding one-to-one to the subtitle streams including a graphics subtitle stream that is multiplexed with the video stream or one of a graphics subtitle stream and a text subtitle stream that is not multiplexed with the video stream, the entries are arranged in accordance with a priority order of the subtitle streams corresponding one-to-one to the entries, the text subtitle stream includes a text code, and is playable by converting the text code to a bitmap image using a font, and if a plurality of subtitle streams from among the subtitle streams satisfy a condition on “whether playable by the playback apparatus”, the priority order is used as a criterion for preferentially selecting one subtitle stream from among the plurality of subtitle streams.