HYBRID FORMAT STORAGE MEDIUM, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR READING A HYBRID FORMAT STORAGE MEDIUM

摘要

It would be desirable to play contents from an AV archive independent from the source format, e.g. video discs, game discs, DVDs etc. in a single player. When conventionally integrating content from different format media to a single high-capacity storage medium by copying, the content cannot be played directly from the target medium. A method for writing data on a high-capacity disc comprises wrapping AV data sets of arbitrary format coming from arbitrary source media into images, generating a sub-disc information file (36) indicating for each image required AV playback information (35), and storing the images and the sub-disc information file on a single disc (34). A respective player can playback the AV contents by automatically reading from the physical disc the sub-disc information file (36), extracting a list of image files and for each image file playback information and automatically setting up one virtual player for each of the image files according to said playback information.