Patent ID: 7805054

Claim:
A signal reproducing method comprising the steps of: reproducing an encoding-resultant signal of a predetermined recording-medium format from a digital disc including a DVD, the encoding-resultant signal containing audio information resulting from quantization of an audio signal including a multi-channel audio signal including a 6-channel audio signal at a quantization degree higher than a degree of quantization for a CD and at a quantization sampling frequency higher than that for a CD, the quantization sampling frequency including 48 kHz; decoding the reproduced encoding-resultant signal into a formatting-resultant signal corresponding to a predetermined format for a digital disc including a DVD, the formatting-resultant signal including segments corresponding to user data areas prescribed in the predetermined format, a compression-resultant signal being placed in the segments of the formatting-resultant signal; deformatting the formatting-resultant signal into the compression-resultant signal; expanding the compression-resultant signal into a quantization-resultant signal by a Huffman decoding process; and converting the quantization-resultant signal into the audio signal including the multi-channel audio signal.