MULTIMEDIA OPTICAL DISC STORING BOTH VIDEO TITLES PROVIDED WITH AV FUNCTION AND VIDEO TITLES WITH NO SUCH FUNCTIONS WHICH CAN INSTANTLY DISTINGUISH BETWEEN SUCH KINDS OF TITLES, AND A REPRODUCTION APPARATUS AND REPRODUCTION METHOD FOR SUCH DISC

摘要

A multimedia optical disc on which a variety of types of video titles are recorded and which enables a reproduction apparatus to instantly distinguish whether emulated AV functions may be performed for any of the titles. The multimedia optical disc includes a manager area which stores playback type information corresponding to the management information for each video title, with the playback type information including a first flag showing whether the present video title is expressed using one or a plurality of sets of route information and a second flag showing whether a title is expressed using any branch information.