INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM

摘要

The present invention is intended to provide a highly reliable and user-friendly information processing apparatus by mitigating the processing load of its CPU to increase the transfer rate at recording and enhance the usage efficiency of recording media. A host CPU 13 determines whether an information signal supplied from the apparatus under the control thereof is a moving picture signal from an instruction entered by user through a key operation block 14 or from the information included in the supplied information signal. If the supplied information signal is found to be moving picture information, the CPU 13 detects free blocks each made up of a plurality of clusters by referencing the FAT information of a hard disk 11 for example selected as a recording medium and records the moving picture information in unit of detected free blocks. If the supplied information signal is found not to be moving picture information, the CPU 13 records the detected signal to free clusters on a cluster basis. <IMAGE>