Patent ID: 8244099

Claim:
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing a plurality of picture streams so that the picture streams are reproduced on a reproducing apparatus and a script program which describes contents of control on reproduction of the picture streams by the reproducing apparatus, wherein the script program: associates each of the plurality of picture streams in advance with either a normal mode for accepting particular key inputs pertaining to picture reproduction, including play, stop, fast-forward and rewind of the picture streams, or a menu mode for not accepting the particular key inputs without describing the control for each event corresponding to the particular key inputs, the normal mode being a mode to be selected when reproducing main contents and the menu mode being a mode to be selected when reproducing menu contents on the display; and includes a command for making the reproducing apparatus read information on the mode associated with the picture streams and reproduce the picture streams in the normal mode or the menu mode in accordance with the information when the recording medium is operated in the reproducing apparatus, and a command for displaying the menu contents using at least one of the picture streams; wherein the script program associates the at least one of the picture streams used in the menu contents with the menu mode so that the reproducing apparatus is operable to ignore the particular key inputs by the user then reproducing menu contents on the display.