RECORDING DEVICE AND RECORDING METHOD

摘要

A recording device and a recording method capable of recording both of moving picture data and still picture data in such a manner that they can be reproduced by various reproduction devices. The moving picture data is data-compressed by the MPEG method in an MPEG encoder (2), formed into recording data corresponding to a predetermined recording format in a format formation section (3), and recorded in a DVD (100) while the still picture data is data-compressed by the JPEG method in a JPEG encoder (6) and recorded in the DVD (100) separately from the moving picture data. At a predetermined timing, the still picture data which has been data-compressed by the JPEG method and recorded in the DVD (100) is read out and converted into an I picture of the MPEG method in a format conversion section (7). The I picture is recorded in the aforementioned predetermined format in the DVD (100) via the format formation section (3).