Recording medium and method and apparatus for storing, reproducing and decoding a text subtitle stream

摘要

In one embodiment, the invention relates to a recording medium for storing a data structure. The data structure has at least one text subtitle stream. Each text subtitle stream includes a style segment defining a group of region styles and a plurality of presentation segments. Each presentation segment has at least one region of text and each region of text being linked to a selected one of the group of region styles. The presentation segment further contains a palette update flag which indicates display update only in palette information in association with a immediately previous presentation segment when reproducing each presentation segment.