Patent ID: 7062156

Claim:
A recording apparatus for recording video data onto a recording medium, the recording apparatus comprising: a generating unit operable to generate playback control information that includes an address table showing correspondence between playback times and recording addresses for a predetermined section of the video data to be recorded; a recording unit operable to record the video data and the generated playback control information onto the recording medium; a detecting unit operable to detect an abnormality where the recording of the video data is incomplete; and a coordination unit operable to, if the detecting unit detects the abnormality, perform a coordination process for the playback control information that was generated on a presumption that the video data has been recorded completely onto the recording medium, wherein, in the coordination process, the coordination unit makes a judgment on how the predetermined section of the video data in the playback control information generated by the generating unit coordinates with a recording complete section of the video data that was recorded by the recording unit, excluding a recording incomplete section of the video data, and corrects the generated playback control information in accordance with the recording complete section of the video data.