Patent ID: 7085473

Claim:
An information recording medium for recording MPEG-encoded information having groups-of-pictures each containing I-picture information, comprising: a management area configured to record management information; and an object area configured to record a data object in unit of a stream block containing data packets, wherein the data packets contained in said stream block correspond to one or more said groups-of-pictures, a last portion of said stream block or a last portion of a data area in said stream block is configured to have a padding area for a padding packet, said MPEG-encoded information is recorded in a unit of the data packet to which the I-picture information is appended, said I-picture information including playback timestamp information, and said management area includes a time relation table which includes playback time information, address information relating to I-pictures of the MPEG-encoded information, and resume information including playback position time information.