Patent ID: 7444067

Claim:
A moving picture recording and/or editing method of recording secondary audio on a recording medium having a moving image, the method comprising: recording and/or editing secondary audio over part or all of first audio, which is original audio when only the first audio exists, the moving image being divided into a plurality of basic units, basic unit information related to the moving image being recorded in each basic unit, the basic unit comprising at least video data and audio data, the audio data comprising the first audio, or the first audio and the second audio, and first state information and, if the second audio exists, second state information indicative of the first and second audio, respectively, being recorded in the basic unit information; and recording a state in which the first audio is the secondary audio recorded over part or all of the original audio, as the first state information on the first audio within the basic unit information, wherein the second state information represents a state in which the second audio remains as the original audio, a state in which the second audio has been modified from the original audio, a dummy state in which the second audio has a same stream as a stream in the original audio of the first audio, and a state in which the second audio has been modified from the dummy state.