Patent ID: 6904231

Claim:
An information recording medium configured to store, (i) a video file or an audio file including an object including object units; and (ii) a management file, including management information, for controlling the object in the video file or in the audio file, said management information including, a movie audio/video file information table including movie audio/video file information table information, movie video object stream information and movie audio/video file information, said movie audio/video file information including movie video object information including general information, seamless information, audio gap information, and time map information, said time map information including information on each of the object units, the information on each of the object units including data size information on each of the object units, a plurality of cell information representing cells and referring to said time map information, the cell information including cell type information for discriminating a cell type and a object information search pointer number corresponding to the cell type, original program chain information designating a fixed reproduction order of cells represented by a part of the cell information while keeping an original reproduction order of said object units unchanged, and new program chain information serving as user-defined program chain information in the management file, the new program chain information designating a reproduction order of cells represented by another part of the cell information, the reproduction order of the cells represented by another part of the cell information being different from the fixed reproduction order designated by the original program chain information.