Patent ID: 8326111

Claim:
A recording apparatus comprising: an instruction circuit configured to instruct a start of recording of input data containing video data and/or audio data; a recording circuit configured to record, in a first recording mode, the input data in a recording medium as a separate unit from the input data previously recorded, and to record, in a second recording mode, the input data in the recording medium successively as one unit with the input data previously recorded when instructed by the instruction circuit to start recording of the input data; and a control circuit configured to control the recording circuit so that the input data is recorded in a selected one of recording modes including the first recording mode and the second recording mode in accordance with a number of units of the input data previously recorded in the recording medium, wherein the control circuit: calculates an expected number of recording units by dividing a remaining time of input data that can be recorded in the recording medium by an average recording time of multiple units of the input data recorded in the recording medium, and controls the recording circuit so that the input data is recorded in the second recording mode when the expected number of recording units exceeds a remaining number of units of the input data that can be recorded in the recording medium.