Patent ID: 7826721

Claim:
An optical disc recording apparatus that records data onto an optical disc that adopts a format in which title and chapter are specified as data management units, the title being a playback unit of contents recorded in contiguous physical areas and the chapter being a unit obtained by dividing the title into a plurality of pieces, comprising: record means for receiving contents data as an input, encoding the contents data into a data stream compatible with the format, and recording the encoded data stream onto the optical disc; and control means for controlling recording processing for the optical disc, wherein the control means records new contents data onto the optical disc in the physical area continuing from the last title of all recorded titles as a chapter continuing from the last chapter included in the last title, the control means is configured to encode the input contents data using a plurality of encoding modes and encoding methods, in the case where the encoding mode or encoding method of the contents data recorded as the last title and that of new contents data are different from each other, the control means records the new contents data as a new title, and in the case where the last title is prevented from being erased or overwritten, the control means records the new contents data as a new title.