Patent ID: 8526790

Claim:
A transitory storage medium storing a data structure for managing reproduction of data streams by a reproducing apparatus, comprising: a first data stream of a first type, the first data stream including a main data stream; a second data stream of a second type, the second data stream associated with the first data stream to be presented simultaneously with the first data stream, the second data stream including an auxiliary stream associated with the main data stream; first access management information for managing reproduction for the first data stream by the reproducing apparatus, the first access management information including first type information indicative of information for the first type and first position information for the first data stream; second access management information, separate from the first access management information, for managing reproduction for the second data stream by the reproducing apparatus, the second access management information including second type information indicative of information for the second type and second position information for the second data stream; first attribute information for the first data stream, the first attribute information including information for a sub-picture; and second attribute information for the second data stream, the second attribute information not including the information for a sub-picture, wherein the first position information for the first data stream is a value corresponding to a distance between a particular position in a file storing management information for all data streams of the first type recorded on the storage medium and a start position of the first data stream.