MULTIMEDIA OPTICAL DISC CORRESPONDING TO DIFFERENT RATING SYSTEMS OF DIFFERENT COUNTRIES, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPRODUCTION

摘要

A multimedia disc made up of a video data storage region for storing a plurality of video data sequences, a management information storage region which stores management information, the management information comprising group information that shows which video data sequences have been grouped together to compose a group from which only one of the composing video data sequences is reproduced, a level ID for each video data sequence in a same group and a set of link information for each video data sequence which indicates a next video data sequence to be reproduced after completion of reproduction of a video data sequence in question, and a level map storage region for storing a separate table for each country/region, wherein each table for a country/region includes information which maps each sort level in a sorting system for the country/region to a level ID. <IMAGE>