Patent ID: 8285126

Claim:
A recording apparatus comprising: a receive unit configured to receive at least one reproduction section of digital stream including a plurality of pictures, the digital stream being recorded on a recording medium; and a write unit configured to generate, when at least two pieces of the reproduction section are received, a duplicated part by duplicating an end vicinity of the digital stream corresponding to a preceding reproduction section and a beginning vicinity of the digital stream corresponding to a subsequent reproduction section, the preceding reproduction section and the subsequent reproduction section being of the two pieces of the reproduction section, and write the generated duplicated part and a flag, wherein the duplicated part is modified to connect the end vicinity and the beginning vicinity seamlessly, the flag indicates whether to reproduce a part before the end vicinity and a part after the beginning vicinity via the duplicated part, or to reproduce the digital stream corresponding to the preceding reproduction section and the digital stream corresponding to the subsequent reproduction section without reproducing the duplicated part, and the end vicinity and the beginning vicinity, which have been duplicated for generating the duplicated part, each include both (i) one or more duplicated pictures without modification and (ii) one or more duplicated pictures with modification.