Data recording method, data editing method, data decoding method, and apparatus and recording medium therefor

Abstract

A system records an AV stream composed of a plurality of record units (RUs) containing independently reproducible video units (VUs) of at least video or audio and program information (Movie atom) managing the AV stream, onto a recording medium. The program information contains a piece of information (Edit list atom) that manages a point of junction between the record units or between AV streams. In decoding the AV stream, decoding is halted or decoders are switched at the point of junction, based on the management information on the points of junction, for example.

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         16 . A data producing method for producing a second unit composed of a plurality of first units containing first data having at least video or audio, and first program information that contains positional information as to the first units, wherein
 the first data is encoded data based on a MPEG standard, and   the first program information contains information indicating a point of junction between the first units.