Patent ID: 7792413

Claim:
A recording arrangement for recording an information signal in tracks on a record carrier, the recording arrangement comprising: an input terminal for receiving the information signal; channel encoding means for channel encoding the information signal into a channel signal, the channel signal including subsequent signal blocks having a predetermined fixed length, each signal block comprising a first block section having a synchronization signal, and a second block section having a number of channel bytes; and writing means for writing the channel signal in the tracks on the record carrier, wherein the information signal is in a form of an MPEG information signal in accordance with an MPEG format, the MPEG information signal comprising subsequent transport packages having a predetermined fixed length, and wherein: the channel encoding means stores information included in x transport packets of the MPEG information signal in the second block sections of a first group of y first signal blocks of said signal blocks of the channel signal so as to enable a normal play mode using video information stored in said first group of y first signal blocks during a normal play reproduction mode; and the channel encoding means further receives a trick mode video signal and stores said trick mode video signal in second block sections of a second group of z second signal blocks of said signal blocks of the channel signal so as to enable a trick play mode using the video information stored in said second signal blocks, wherein the second block sections of at least one signal block in each first and second group of first and second signal blocks, respectively, comprise a third block section for storing identification information indicating whether the group comprises the first signal blocks or second signal blocks, and wherein x, y and z are integer constants in which x.gtoreq.1, y>1 and z>1.