Patent ID: 8452163

Claim:
A method of producing record carriers by a recording device, comprising: receiving a real time serial stream of information signals containing consecutive data packets; detecting the data packets in the serial stream of information signals by a streamer of the recording device; establishing respective times of arrival of the data packets; generating time stamps indicating the times of arrival of respective data packets; generating source packets each containing a data packet and the related time stamp; generating stream packets by a streamer each containing: multiple source packets; a pack header; and packet retrieval information; a size of a stream packet being equal to a predetermined size of a unit of allocation of a disc-like record carrier; and recording the stream packets into the respective units on the disk-like record carrier; wherein the packet retrieval information includes a number of beginnings of the multiple source packets in the stream packets, lengths of the source packets, and offset information indicating a position of a first byte of a first source packet in a first stream packet; wherein a start position of padding bytes included in the first stream packet is derived from the number of beginnings, the lengths of the source packets, and the offset information; and wherein the first stream packet ends with a start of a second source packet which is not complete and a start of a second stream packet of the stream packets includes a remaining end portion of the second source packet.