Patent ID: 8503859

Claim:
A reproducing apparatus for reproducing content data recorded on a recording medium, the reproducing apparatus comprising: reading means for reading from the recording medium video data, audio data reproducible in accordance with the video data, and information that indicates whether the video data and the audio data have been recorded as a multiplexed file or as independent files; and reproducing means for reproducing the video data and the audio data that are read by the reading means in accordance with the information that is read by the reading means such that when the information indicates that the video data and the audio data have been recorded as a multiplexed file on the recording medium, still pictures derived from the video data are reproduced in synchronization with the audio data by the reproducing means, and when the information indicates that the video data and the audio data have been recorded as independent files on the recording medium, the still pictures derived from the video data are reproduced by the reproducing means without being in synchronization with the audio data.