Patent ID: 8644681

Claim:
A method of delayed reading of digital video data stored in a file on a recording medium, comprising: reserving, on said recording medium, a predetermined quantity of resources to said file intended for delayed reading of data, based on resources already used, said reserved resources being located anywhere on said recording medium; writing said data of said file in said resources, a write pointer indicating the write position, said writing comprises using said reserved resources on the recording medium; reading said data of said file in said resources, a read pointer indicating the read position; and, further to a writing of data of said file in said resources, when all reserved resources are allocated, deallocating a predetermined quantity of allocated resources depending on the size of the file and on a delay between said read and write pointer, said deallocated predetermined quantity of resources being the cells of the files written first, reserving new resources, not part of the previously reserved predetermined quantity of resources, for said file, said deallocation and reserving of new resources keeping constant the size of said file to said predetermined quantity of reserved resources.