Patent ID: 8571392

Claim:
A video recording and reproducing apparatus comprising: a recorded data storage unit that stores recorded data containing at least motion picture data; a recording and reproducing controller which reads and outputs recorded data from the recorded data storage unit; and a controller which controls the recording and reproducing controller, wherein when executing special reproduction of the recorded data stored in the recorded data storage unit, which contains no position information of I-picture, the recording and reproducing controller reads and sequentially outputs a predetermined amount of recorded data stored in the recorded data storage unit at a position specified by the controller and detects I-picture start information and end information of MPEG-formatted motion picture data from the output data, and, upon detecting both of the I-picture start information and the end information at a time, discards residual data, and wherein the predetermined amount of recorded data read by the recording and reproducing controller is sufficient for storing at least one I-picture, and is a part of the recorded data stored in the recorded data storage unit.