Patent ID: 8515260

Claim:
A recording apparatus comprising: a receiver device operable to receive a digital stream, which is a multiplex of a video stream and an audio stream; an input device operable to receive a first entry point representing a starting point of a playback of the digital stream, the first entry point being defined by a user; an analyzer operable to automatically produce, during a monitoring of the digital stream, a second entry point representing a change point at which an attribute of the digital stream changes; a control device operable to generate management information; and a drive device operable to record the generated management information and the digital stream onto a recording medium, wherein the management information includes: playback path information representing a playback path of the digital stream; and stream management information for managing the digital stream, the stream management information being different from the playback path information, wherein the playback path information contains the first entry point, wherein the stream management information contains the second entry point, wherein the first entry point is defined by a first type information table storing first type information, wherein the second entry point is defined by a second type information table storing the first type information, and wherein one of the first and second type information tables further stores second type information.