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System and method for controlling play of multiple versions of the same motion picture stored on an optical disk

  • US 5,574,567 A
  • Filed: 02/07/1996
  • Issued: 11/12/1996
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/29/1993
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A software carrier for storing video data for access by a data processor comprising a single track with a data structure having three different types of interleaved video data blocks, each of said video data blocks including (1) video data unique to one of at least two versions of the same program material, (2) video data unique to the other of said at least two versions of the same program material, and (3) video data common to said at least two versions of the same program material, with said track containing at least one data block of each of said three types and said video data blocks further containing addresses and pointer data identifying the sequential addresses of the video data blocks to be selected for a particular version of the same program material.

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