Patent ID: 8184959

Claim:
An apparatus for recording/playing a moving picture in a digital broadcast receiver, the apparatus comprising: a recording medium configured to record analog or digital signals; a frame converter configured to convert an original P frame and an original B frame of an input digital broadcasting signal into respective converted I frames; and a recording/playing controller configured to record the original P frame, the original B frame and an original I frame of the input digital broadcasting signal in a normal play memory area of the recording medium, record the original I frame and the converted I frames in a trick play memory area of the recording medium along with corresponding frame index data, and upload, from the trick play memory area, the original I frame and the converted I frames for decoding and playing according to a times speed and a direction of trick play using the frame index data during a trick play mode, wherein the frame converter is configured to convert the original P frame and the original B frame into the converted I frames by feeding back the original P frame and the original B frame to be MPEG decoded, and encoding the MPEG decoded original P frame and the MPEG decoded original B frame into the converted I frames through MPEG encoding by the frame converter.