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A RECORDING MEDIUM FOR STORING INFORMATION FOR STILL PICTURES, AND A RECORDING AND/OR REPRODUCING METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREFOR. IN A WRITEABLE AND REWRITEABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, DATA FOR A PLURALITY OF STILL PICTURES AND AUDIO DATA ADDED THERETO IN ONE FILE OR A SPACE-HAVING A LOGICALLY ONE-DIMENSIONAL ORDER, RATHER THAN IN EACH FILE, AND STILL PICTURE GROUP INFORMATION FOR SEPARATING THE STILL PICTURE DATA (203) INTO WITHIN A PREDETERMINED MAXIMUM NUMBER OF GROUPS IN ORDER TO MANAGE THE STILL PICTURES AT A GROUP LEVEL IS THEN STORED. THUS, LARGE-CAPACITY STILL PICTURE DATA AND AUDIO DATA ADDED THERETO CAN BE RECORDED AND/OR REPRODUCED USING A MINIMUM AMOUNT OF INFORMATION. THE STILL PICTURE GROUP INFORMATION (202) INCLUDES GENERAL INFORMATION FOR A STILL PICTURE GROUP, CONTAINING THE START POSITION OF THE STILL PICTURE GROUP AND THE NUMBER OF VIDEO PARTS IN THE STILL PICTURE GROUP, AND INFORMATION FOR A STILL PICTURE, THE INFORMATION CONTAINING POSITION INFORMATION THEREOF. THE GENERAL INFORMATION FOR A STILL PICTURE GROUP INCLUDES THE START POSITION OF A STILL PICTURE IN THE STILL PICTURE GROUP. THE INFORMATION FOR A STILL PICTURE AND AUDIO DATA INCLUDES THE SIZES THEREOF. THEREFORE,EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF INFORMATION IS ALLOWED.(FIG 2)
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