Patent ID: 7184652

Claim:
A digital video recording apparatus for recording a digital video signal on a recording medium, the digital video signal being inputted in packets, comprising: a PID conversion table having registered therein information for converting a PID (packet identifier) assigned to a packet composing the digital video signal; a table initialization section for initializing the PID conversion table in response to an instruction to start recording or a switching of services provided in the inputted digital video signal; a PID detection section for detecting a PID assigned to each inputted packet of the digital video signal, and for a packet determined as containing control data or video/audio data based on the detected PID, registering a value which is different from a current value as a converted PID for the packet in the PID conversion table; a PID conversion section for converting the PID of an inputted packet and the PID of the control data or video/audio data contained therein to the converted PID in accordance with the registered information in the PID conversion table; and a recording section for recording the packet whose PID has been converted by the PID conversion section on the recording medium.