Patent ID: 8606079

Claim:
A recording apparatus which divides a material including video and/or audio information and records divided materials onto a plurality of recording media, the recording apparatus comprising: a control unit configured to divide the material into a plurality of divided materials having a particular order and to prepare, for each one of the divided materials, corresponding reproduction procedure information by which the plurality of divided materials is reproducible in the particular order, the corresponding reproduction procedure information for each one of the divided materials including recording information for that divided material; an interface configured to attach the plurality of recording media; and a recording device configured to record the divided materials and the corresponding reproduction procedure information including recording information for the divided materials onto separate recording media for each one of the respective divided materials, wherein the corresponding reproduction procedure information recorded on each one of the recording media combines to represent the particular order of the entire material, and the corresponding reproduction procedure information recorded on a given one of the recording media in the particular order includes the corresponding reproduction procedure information recorded on each one of the recording media that precede the given one of the recording media in the particular order.