MULTIMEDIA OPTICAL DISK CAPABLE OF PRESERVING FRESHNESS OF IMAGE CONTENT FOR LONG TIME AND ITS REPRODUCTION APPARATUS AND METHOD

摘要

A multimedia optical disk that eliminates routine image reproduction and remains attractive for a long time. This disk includes a data area and an index area, and a plurality of objects containing motion video data are recorded in the data area. The index area includes a plurality of sub-areas, which contain a group of write addresses extracted from a plurality of the objects recorded in the data area (Fig. 7A), flags for reproducing them at random, and the number of times of repetition of random reproduction (Fig. 7B).