Patent ID: 8184957

Claim:
A video recording method that records a video on a recording medium in a file format, in which a file is produced according to the format based on a standard that is so defined as to arrange a directory below a Root directory, and to arrange the respective directories of PLAYLIST, CLIPINFO, and STREAM below the directory, and is recorded on the recording medium, the video recording method comprising: forming the format so as to produce one Play Item in each of segments of acquired video scenes, and to arrange a plurality of Play Items in one Play List data; and recording the video on the recording medium according to the format; wherein: the format control section newly produces and updates the Play List data when the date is updated; the Play List data includes the date and time information on the start and the end corresponding to each of the scenes as the information of each of the Play Items; and increasing and producing the Play Item one by one without updating the Play List data every time one scene video is recorded on the recording medium.