To provide an information recording medium capable of translating a stream recorded in a limiting format, where format conversion from a first format to a second format can be done, and seamlessly connected into a second stream, and to provide an apparatus and a method for recording information on the information recording medium.
A limiting format capable of translating a first format (for example, MPEG transport stream) into a second format (for example, MPEG program stream) is provided. According to the limiting format, when a connection information on a reproduction zone shows seamless reproduction, a system stream immediately before a seamless connecting point ends in a perfect data management unit (Capsule). In that case, the perfect data management unit contains one or more GOPs (Group of Picture).
Mitsuo Tanaka
Kawabata Junichi