Patent ID: 7369754

Claim:
A machine readable information storage medium embodied as a recordable optical disc for access by an optical disc drive, wherein a track is formed on the medium, said track being configured to have data recorded thereon and data reproduced therefrom by an information recording/reproducing apparatus including the optical disc drive, said data including VOB (video object) data and control information the information storage medium comprising: a data area configured to store a plurality of ECC blocks including the VOB data, said VOB data being configured to have at least one of the video object units wherein a predetermined number of sectors form each of the ECC blocks, each of the sectors has a predetermined size, and the predetermined number of said sectors relates to an ECC block address, and a control information recording area configured to store the control information, the control information being configured to control or manage the VOB data and including movie file information table M_AVFIT having a first area configured to store movie VOB stream information M_VOB_STI and a second area configured to store movie AV file information M_AVFI describing information on said data area for the VOB data, said M_AVFI including one or more movie VOB information search pointers M_VOBI_SRPs associated with one or more pieces of movie VOB information M_VOBI, wherein each said M_VOBI includes time map information TMAPI including time map general information TMAP_GI, one or more time entries TM_ENTs, and one or more video object unit entries VOBU_ENTs, each said VOBU_ENT includes playback time information VOBU_PB_TM of a corresponding video object unit VOBU of the video object units and size information VOBU_SZ of the corresponding VOBU, each said TM_ENT includes numeral information VOBU_ENTN on a corresponding video object entry VOBU_ENT of the video object unit entries, and said VOB data is configured to be recorded in unit of video object unit VOBU which contains at least one of a video pack, audio pack, sub-picture pack, and dummy pack, said dummy pack being able to become an audio pack for after recording.