Patent ID: 8611722

Claim:
A recording/reproducing system, comprising: a non-transitory recording medium including: recorded AV data divided into a plurality of playitems, and reproduction range information representative of a range production of said plurality of playitems, said reproduction range information including connection information representative of a connection condition between two playitems, said connection information depends on whether a picture precedes a picture at a connection point or data of a picture follows the picture at the connection point; a recording/reproducing apparatus that accesses said AV data in accordance with said reproduction range information and said connection information; and the recording/reproducing apparatus classifies reproduction between the two playitems based on the connection information indicating different states of (1) a start point and end point of the two playitems designating an arbitrary picture of an AV stream, (2) a connection point between the two playitems is a clean break, (3) a connection point between the two playitems allows jumping from or to an intermediate portion of an AV stream, and (4) the playitems are a top or last of an AV stream file.