Patent ID: 8571389

Claim:
A computer-readable non-transitory information medium or a computer-associated machine-readable non-transitory information medium for access by a recording/reproducing apparatus, the medium comprising one or more data areas configured to store object data items corresponding to stream files of an MPEG transport stream, and a management area configured to store management information for managing the stream files, wherein one of the object data items includes a first MPEG data item corresponding to the MPEG transport stream which comprises transport packets each associated with an arrival time stamp, and another one of the object data items can include a second MPEG data item corresponding to a self-encoded MPEG stream, a coding format of the second MPEG data item being different from that of the first MPEG data item; and the management information comprises playlist information including one or more playback control items, the playback control item including number information which refers to the first MPEG data item.