Patent ID: 7254318

Claim:
A recording apparatus for copying a plurality of contents stored in a first recording medium to a second recording medium, the recording apparatus comprising: a selecting unit operable to select, in accordance with a user operation, one or more contents to be copied from the first recording medium to the second recording medium; a receiving unit operable to receive a user instruction designating one or more contents, out of the selected contents, to be copied without changing a current bit rate; a first duplicating unit operable to copy, to the second recording medium, each designated content without changing the current bit rate; and a second duplicating unit operable to copy, to the second recording medium, one or more contents remaining non-designated, by re-encoding to reduce a size thereof, wherein a bit rate allocated to each content by re-encoding is calculated using a total reproduction time of the non-designated contents and a residual free capacity remaining after subtracting, from an effective free capacity of the second recording medium, a total size of the contents to be copied by the first duplicating unit.