Patent ID: 8271551

Claim:
An encoding method, implemented by a processor, comprising: generating a file type area having information on a file format of a multimedia data; generating a data area comprising a plurality of media data; generating a media information area comprising a slide show area and an audio track area corresponding to image data and audio data in the data area, respectively, the slide show area of the plurality of track areas including a media area and a track meta area, the media area of the slide show area including reproduction duration information, position information, and size information on a plurality of image data, each reproduction duration information, position information, and size information in the media area of the slide show area being allocated for each image data in the data area; and constructing the generated file type area, the media information area, and the data area as one multimedia data file, and outputting the constructed multimedia data file, wherein the image data and the audio data in the data area are dependent on one timeline, all images that are used in the slide show presentation are arranged in a single track, each track meta area of the slide show area and the audio track area includes meta information on the image data and the audio data, respectively, each track meta area of the slide show area and the audio track area includes an XML format data on the meta information, and the track meta area of the slide show area includes title information of a group of a plurality of image data in the data area.