Patent ID: 8068720

Claim:
A recording apparatus comprising: encoding means for encoding an input content; format organizing means for dividing content information resulted from encoding of the input content by the encoding means into access blocks each including a succession of frames and generating header information for the content information; and writing means for writing the content data in units of an access block into a contiguous data area of a recording medium while writing the header information into a contiguous header area of the recording medium, the format organizing means generates the access block so that a leading one of the frames of each access block is a base point of decoding subsequent frames, and also generates (1) access block size information for each access block and an output-time for a leading frame, and (2) a size information and output-time information for frames other than the leading frame; and the writing means writes the access block size information for each access block and the output-time information for the leading frame into the header area, and writes the size information and the output-time information for the frames other than the leading frame of each access block along with each access block into the data area.