Patent ID: 7889968

Claim:
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having a data structure for managing reproduction of at least video data having multiple reproduction paths recorded thereon, comprising: at least one clip file storing the video data for a title, the title including a first segment for a single reproduction path and a second segment for multiple reproduction paths, wherein the video data are recorded as video data packets, and the video data packets for the second segment are interleaved; and at least one management information including reproduction path information corresponding to the segments and at least one entry point map, wherein the reproduction path information includes information indicating the number of the reproduction paths of the second segment and an identifier identifying a reproduction path ID of the multiple reproduction paths of the second segment, and each reproduction path of the multiple reproduction paths is associated with one of the at least one clip files of the multiple reproduction paths, each of the multiple reproduction paths being associated with a different entry point map, the entry point map mapping a presentation time stamp to an address for a corresponding entry point of the video data, the entry point map including information identifying where changing a reproduction path among the multiple reproduction paths is permitted, the information identifying an entry point at which entry to an associated reproduction path from another reproduction path is permitted, wherein at least one playlist is included in the reproduction path information, the playlist is a collection of a plurality of playitems, each playitem including an in-time and an out-time for identifying a playing interval of the video data, and the multiple reproduction paths of the second segment are associated with one playitem, a file name extension of the clip file is different from a file name extension of the management information.