Patent ID: 7376336

Claim:
A recording apparatus comprising: a receiving device which simultaneously receives a plurality of broadcast video signals; a multiplexing device which obtains a plurality of broadcast video signals from said receiving device, packetizes each of the plurality of broadcast video signals and converts the packets into time-division multiplexed data; and a control device which records said time-division multiplexed data in a memory apparatus in packet units using a ring buffer method and in the order of recording position, and forms chapter units in said memory apparatus from a specified group of packets for the same program when performing records, wherein said control device which records a new packet to be recorded over an old packet in order of recording position when the packet length of the packet to be recorded next is greater than the data length of the recordable area from the record-end-position of the newest packet in the recording order to the record-start-position of the oldest packet in the recording order, and take the recorded area of packets whose chapter is equal to the chapter of the old packets to be the recordable area.