Patent ID: 7076153

Claim:
An information storage medium configured to store a data structure arranged to include an MPEG-encoded transport stream by a recording/reproducing apparatus, said data structure comprising: an object data area configured to store stream data, the stream data including a plurality of data units each containing a plurality of transport packets including I-picture information of the MPEG-encoded transport stream, each serving as a unit of access, and each corresponding to a group-of-picture of the MPEG-encoded transport stream; and a management area, different from the object area, configured to store management information, the management information including table information indicating a relationship between presentation timestamp information and a corresponding access point in the stream data, wherein said table information of the management information comprises prescribed information of the I-picture information stored in the object data area, said prescribed information being configured to indicate a positional range of the I-picture information in the object data area, and the recording/reproducing apparatus employs the management information to access stream data in accordance with the format of the medium.