To provide a format conversion recorder which performs recording to a recording media in particular corresponding to a plurality of kinds of recording formats suitably in digital stream recording equipment equipped with a digital input function, and its recording method and its control program.

This format conversion recorder performs recording control in which an input signal and a recording signal are combined appropriately by setting preferential conditions at the time of recording which include the discrimination of an input signal, the discrimination of a medium to be recorded, the confirmation of a free capacity, picture quality, etc.