Recording apparatus with jump destination position information

摘要

A recording apparatus includes a compressive encoder for compressively encoding an input video signal into compression-resultant data whose amount is variable from frame to frame. A first device operates for measuring an accumulative amount of the compression-resultant data generated by the compressive encoder. A second device operates for generating information of a jump destination position when the accumulative amount measured by the first device reaches a predetermined amount. A third device operates for recording the compression-resultant data generated by the compressive encoder and the jump-destination-position information generated by the second device on a recording medium.