Patent ID: 8295688

Claim:
An apparatus for recording and reproducing digitally compressed data in the form of divided data to and from a recording medium, comprising: a data processing circuit which adds reference time information indicating an output reference time during a reproducing process to each of the divided data in the digitally compressed data; an error correction code adding circuit which generates an error correction code from the divided data with the reference time information, and adds the generated error correction code to the divided data with the reference time information; a recording circuit which records the divided data with the reference time information and the error correction code in the recording medium; a reproducing circuit which reproduces the divided data with the reference time information and the error correction code from the recording medium; an error correction circuit which performs error correction using the reproduced error correction code on the reproduced divided data and the reproduced reference time information; and a rearranging circuit which rearranges and outputs the reproduced and error-corrected divided data on a time axis according to the reproduced and error-corrected reference time information, such that a time interval between adjacent divided data as outputted from the rearranging circuit is equal to a time interval between respective output reference times of the adjacent divided data.