Patent ID: 7242851

Claim:
A playback apparatus for outputting presentation data recorded on a record medium, comprising: a memory; a reading section which reads, from the record medium to the memory, a stream that is a data row which includes encoded presentation data and attribute information related to the presentation data, the presentation data and the attribute information being multiplexed in the data row; a separation section which separates the presentation data from the stream that has been read to the memory; a decoding section which decodes the separated presentation data; an output section which outputs the decoded presentation data; an extraction section which extracts the attribute information from the stream that has been read to the memory; a time specification section which specifies a presentation time for the presentation data that corresponds to the extracted attribute information; a table creation section which creates a table in which the presentation time specified by the time specification section and the attribute information extracted by the extraction section are recorded so as to correspond to each other; and a reflection section which, referring to the table, selects specific attribute information from the table according to a presentation time for the presentation data being outputted by the output section, and reflects the specific attribute information in an output of the presentation data by the output section.