Patent ID: 7668436

Claim:
A video information recording device, comprising: detection means for detecting copy control information in inputted video information; change point information acquisition means for acquiring change point information of copy control information corresponding to video information to be recorded based on said copy control information detected by said detection means; management information generation means for generating management information for managing said copy control information based on said change point information; and recording means for recording said management information and said video information; wherein the video information is included in a transport stream file and said management information is included in a corresponding separate information file; and the separate information file containing the management information is managed under a different directory from the transport stream file, and the video information being a stream having a first part with a first copy control information associated therewith and a second part with a second copy control information associated therewith, in which the first copy control information is different from the second copy control information, and said management information being arranged such that copy control status of the entire stream can be obtained without reading the entire stream.