DISPERSIVE CHAPTER-ALLOCATION TO DVD RECORDINGS

摘要

A chapter budget in archiving from a hard disk (308) to a recordable or rewritable DVD (302) is gracefully complied with for a title (104) that would otherwise exceed the budget. If the budget provides too few normal chapters (128), the needed number of normal chapters to be archived is eliminated based on the importance as judged by the user's behavior (S540). If the budget provides too few chapters to accommodate the indicated automatic chapters, the budgeted automatic chapters are equitably distributed among all normal chapters based on the chapter duration (S608).