Content transmitting apparatus, content receiving apparatus, content transmitting and receiving system, content transmitting method, and content receiving method

摘要

A video recording and reproducing apparatus on a transmitting side encodes video and audio content into MPEG data. The video recording and reproducing apparatus then divides the MPEG data into an MPEG stream and reference information thereof, records the MPEG stream and the reference information in a recording medium in the DVD-VR format, and transmits the content in the DVD-VR format via a network. A transmitting section of the recording and reproducing apparatus transmits the MPEG stream in an M_VOB and reference information of the MPEG stream. The reference information includes VOBU_ENT information for all VOBUs contained in the M_VOB, M_VOB_STI information of the M_VOB, and start and end PTM information of the M_VOB. Thus, content recorded in one video recording and reproducing apparatus is copied to another video recording and reproducing apparatus via a network.