Method and apparatus for recording digital data streams and management information

摘要

Method and apparatus for recording digital data transport stream units such as application packets in sectors of a disk type recording medium such as a digital versatile disk and create and record management information for the recorded transport stream units. In case that a single transport stream unit is divided and then recorded across two sectors, header information of the preceding sector including management information which is created corresponding to each transport stream unit is generated, and the size of the header information and transport stream units to be recorded in the preceding sector is compared with the size of a sector. If the size difference is 1 byte, an invalid header data distinguishable from normal application header extension information is inserted to maintain the correspondence between each transport stream unit to be recorded in the preceding sector and its management information.