Patent ID: 8488949

Claim:
A computer-readable non-transitory information medium or a computer-associated machine-readable non-transitory information medium for access by a recording/reproducing apparatus, the medium comprising one or more data areas configured to store object data items corresponding to stream files of an MPEG transport stream, and a management area configured to store management information for managing the stream files, wherein one of the data areas is configured to record the object data items using at least one of a video stream, an audio stream, and another stream, one of the object data items includes an MPEG data item corresponding to the MPEG transport stream, and the management information comprises playlist information including one or more playback control items configured to manage one or more playback units referring to the one object data item, and a seamless connection flag configured to indicate a seamless connection of two sequentially-arranged playback units relating to at least one of the object data items, wherein the seamless connection flag is independent of whether one of the two sequentially-arranged playback units does not include I-picture information.