Video recorder, video player and method for managing video material

摘要

A video recorder which can maintain compatibility with a video recorder which uses magnetic tape as a recording medium and manage recorded videos easily is provided. The video recorder has a random access recording medium, a video management part, a control part and a video playback part. The video management part records information showing a group, and information showing record order of the video material in the specified group in the recording medium as the management information. A control part records the video data in the recording medium, reads out the management information from the recording medium, and read out the video data in the record order according to the information showing the record order. And the video playback part plays back the video data read out from the recording medium.