Patent ID: 7024099

Claim:
An information recording medium configured to have data recorded thereon and data reproduced therefrom by an information recording/reproducing apparatus, said data including audio/video data and control information for managing said audio/video data, the information recording medium comprising: a data area configured to store said audio/video data included in a video object; and a management area separate from said data area and configured to store said control information, wherein said control information includes movie AV file information having M_AVFI general information and one or more movie VOBI search pointers, said movie AV file information includes movie video object information corresponding to said video object, said movie video object information includes movie video object general information containing temporary erase information of said video object, said video object is configured to be set at a temporarily erased state, said temporarily erased state indicated by said temporary erase information, said control information includes original PGC information, said original PGC information includes PGC general information, said original PGC information includes program information corresponding to a program, said original PGC information includes a plurality of pieces of cell information corresponding to cells, said program information includes number information of said cells in said program, one piece of said cell information includes cell general information and one or more pieces of cell entry point information corresponding to cell entry points of said cell, said cell general information includes information of a type of said cell, movie VOBI search pointer numeral information of one of said movie VOBI search pointers corresponding to said video object of said cell, information describing a number of said cell entry point information, information describing a presentation start time of said cell, and information describing a presentation end time of said cell, and one piece of said cell entry point information includes type information of one of said cell entry points and information of a presentation time for one of said cell entry points.