Patent ID: 7346266

Claim:
A method for recording bitstream data on an information medium, which comprises a data structure stored in said information medium including, a stream pack including an application header and application packets configured to contain the bitstream data of MPEG-TS, wherein, the stream pack is contained in a data unit and the data unit is contained in a data object corresponding to the bitstream data, said information medium is an information medium having a data area configured to store the bitstream data using at least one said stream pack, and a management area configured to store management information that pertains to the bitstream data, said management information being configured to control reproduction of the bitstream data, the management information includes information for managing a cell which represents a portion of a program corresponding to recorded contents of the data object, positional information of management data for managing the data object, start and end information of the cell relating to an arrival time of the application packets, number information by which the cell is related to the data object, and size information of the data unit including the application packets, and the recording location of said management information being different from that of said data area for storing the bitstream data using the stream pack, said method comprising: forming the bitstream data according to said data structure and recording this bitstream data on the data area; and generating the management information according to said data structure and recording this management information on the management area.