Patent ID: 8515247

Claim:
A non-transitory machine readable information recording medium for access by an information reproducing apparatus, the non-transitory machine readable information recording medium comprising: a first area configured to record a video file, the video file including a video object, and the video object including a video unit; and a second area configured to record control information, the control information including time information, the time information including information relating to the video unit, the control information specifying a first program chain, a second program chain and cells, the first program chain designating first reproduction order of one part of the cells, a first cell of the one part of cells referring to a first section of the video object, the second program chain designating second reproduction order of another part of the cells, a second cell of the another part of cells referring to a second section of the video object, a part of the first section being able to overlap with the second section, another part of the first section being able not to overlap with the second section, the control information including program chain information representing the first program chain, and the program chain information including information referring to the time information, wherein the video file is read by the information reproducing apparatus, the program chain information includes information which relates to total number of the one part of cells, the control information includes information which relates to a specific recording location, and the control information is read and provided to play back the video file by the information reproducing apparatus, and the video file is accessed according to the read control information.