| 摘要 |
Data buffer stores therein data of a plurality of packets supplied from an optional external source on a packet-by-packet basis. When a predetermined quantity of data have been stored in the data buffer, a system controller successively reads out from the data buffer the data for N (an optional integral number of two or more) packets from among the supplied packets. Encoder converts, into a recording format of an optical disc, the data for the N packets successively read out from the data buffer and outputs the converted data after adding thereto packet-linking information. Then, the converted data for the N packets with the packet-linking information are successively recorded onto the optical disc. Thus, even for long data of a plurality of packets, this arrangement can reduce a necessary number of track seek operations to thereby greatly reduce a necessary recording time. |
