APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECORDING AND REPRODUCING AS WELL AS RECORDING MEDIUM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain an apparatus and a method in which a scene missed during a picture recording operation can be seen immediately. SOLUTION: In an encoder board 213, an MPEG system stream obtained by MPEG-encoding an image (and a voice accompanying it) is retrieved on an MPEG file which constitutes a 'tape' as a recording region which is created in advance on a hard disk 212. On the other hand, in a decoder 201A which is realized when a microprocessor 201 executes a application program performing an MPEG decoding operation, data is read out from an arbitrary position in a range (a painted part) in which the MPEG system stream in the MPEG file is recorded, and it is decoded. The MPEG file is opened by a so- called shared operation which permits an access operation from a plurality of application programs.