Patent ID: 8526783

Claim:
A non-transitory computer- or machine-readable information medium configured to have data recorded thereon and data reproduced therefrom by a computer or a computer-associated machine including an information recording/reproducing apparatus, the data including management information and MPEG stream data including I-picture information and transported by an MPEG transport stream, the non-transitory computer- or machine-readable information medium comprising: a data area configured to store the MPEG stream data using at least one stream packet; and a management area configured to store the management information for managing the stream data, wherein a first data unit is denoted by a data packet representing a transport packet or an application packet, the data packet corresponding to the stream packet, a second data unit is denoted by a data unit representing a stream block or a stream object unit, a third data unit is denoted by object data representing a stream object, and the stream data to be stored in the data area comprises the stream object of the third data unit including one or more the second data units including one or more the first units; wherein the management information comprises particular information showing existence of an access unit data representing a unit of access to the I-picture information, wherein the stream packet comprises 2-bit copy management information regarding AV information of the stream data, wherein the second data unit comprises one or more intermediate units including the first data unit, and the second data unit is indicated by a unit of size relating to the intermediate unit, and the intermediate unit comprises a pair of the data packet and a timestamp, and wherein the stream data corresponds to the MPEG transport stream including a program clock reference, the program clock reference relates to a system time clock for time-management of the stream data, and the system time clock relates to the timestamp, and wherein the management information is read and provided to play back the MPEG stream data by the information recording/reproducing apparatus, and the MPEG stream data is accessed according to the read management information.