Multimedia optical disc storing both video titles provided with av functions and video titles with no such functions which can instantly distinguish between such kinds of titles, and a reproduction apparatus and reproduction method for such disc

Abstract

A multimedia optical disc on which a variety of types of video titles are recorded and which enables a reproduction apparatus to instantly distinguish whether emulated AV functions may be performed for any of the titles. The multimedia optical disc includes a manager area which stores playback type information corresponding to the management information for each video title, with the playback type information including a first flag showing whether the present video title is expressed using one or a plurality of sets of route information and a second flag showing whether a title is expressed using any branch information.

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       29 . A recording medium having video data to be read and reproduced by an audio-visual device in accordance with a reproductive order indicated by route information, the recording medium comprising: 
 a plurality of pieces of video information;    route information, to be read by said audio-visual device, defining a reproduction route by specifying at least one reproductive order of the plurality of pieces of video information;    a plurality of title search pointers that correlate a plurality of title numbers, which are uniquely assigned to a plurality of titles, with a piece of entry route information; and    reproduction information including title type information for each title,    wherein the title type information indicates whether or not a branch between pieces of route information occurs during reproduction of each title.    
   
   
       30 . A reproduction apparatus for the recording medium of  claim 29.