Patent ID: 8000580

Claim:
A non-transitory recording medium having recorded thereon a video stream and a graphics stream, wherein: the video stream represents a moving picture made up of a plurality of pictures; the graphics stream is used for overlaying a menu on the moving picture, and includes interactive control information and graphics data; the graphics data is used for generating both the menu and an effect presented for introducing or removing the menu; the interactive control information includes a plurality of pieces of composition information defining a sequence of display compositions of graphics constituting the effect; each piece of composition information shows (i) a bounding area on a graphics plane within which a respective display composition is rendered and (ii) a duration after which the display composition is replaced by a subsequent display composition to be rendered within the same bounding area; and the duration is determined based on a value calculated by dividing the size of the bounding area by a transfer rate of a playback apparatus.