Patent ID: 8213778

Claim:
A recording apparatus generating meta-information including an initial address of a plurality of TS packets constituting a PES packet that includes an independently-decodable picture, and including size information pertaining to the independently-decodable picture, and recording the generated meta-information onto a recording medium, the recording apparatus comprising: a header judgment unit operable to sequentially judge whether each respective TS packet of the plurality of TS packets includes a PES packet header, based on header information of the respective TS packet of the plurality of TS packets; a picture judging unit operable to, when the header judgment unit judges that a TS packet of the plurality of TS packets includes the PES packet header, judge whether the PES packet includes a head picture that is independently decodable, the judgment being performed by the picture judging unit using information included in the TS packet including the PES packet header, and the information included in the TS packet including the PES packet header indicating whether the head picture of the PES packet is independently decodable; a counting unit operable to start a counting of TS packets of the plurality of TS packets when the picture judging unit judges affirmatively, and operable to stop the counting of the TS packets of the plurality of TS packets when the header judgment unit subsequently judges affirmatively, so as to obtain a TS packet count; and a generation unit operable to generate the size information using the TS packet count obtained by the counting unit.