Patent ID: 7418194

Claim:
A machine readable information storage medium for access by a recording or reproducing apparatus, said medium comprising: a data area configured to store stream data as well as real-time video object data which is different from the stream data; a file information area configured to store file system information for managing files of the stream data and the real-time video object data; and a management area configured to store management information for managing the stream data being formed of one or more stream objects, wherein each stream object includes one or more packets each having a given time stamp, data files of the stream data and the real-time video object data to be managed by said file system information are stored under a single directory, when cells arranged in a reproduction order of the stream data are defined, the management information for managing the stream data includes start time information of the cell and end time information of the cell, and the start time information and the end time information are described using an arrival time of the packet.