Patent ID: 8831400

Claim:
A non-transitory recording medium comprising a base-view stream file and a dependent-view stream file recorded thereon, wherein the base-view stream file, which contains a base-view stream representing either of left and right views and being able to be decoded alone, is to be used for both monoscopic video playback and stereoscopic video playback, wherein the dependent-view stream file, which contains a dependent-view stream representing another of the left and right views and needing to be decoded with use of the base-view stream, is to be used exclusively for stereoscopic video playback in combination with the base-view stream file, and wherein the recording medium includes a contiguous area in which a plurality of extents belonging to the base-view stream file and a plurality of extents belonging to the dependent-view stream file are arranged in an interleaved manner, starting from an extent belonging to the dependent-view stream file, such that (i) a leading extent, of the extents included in the contiguous area, is used exclusively for the stereoscopic video playback as the extent belonging to the dependent-view stream file, (ii) the leading extent contains a part of the dependent-view stream representing the other of the left and right views, and (iii) the leading extent needs to be decoded with use of a subsequent extent included in the contiguous area containing a part of the base-view stream representing the either of the left and right views.