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Multimedia optical disc storing both video titles provided with AV functions and video titles with no such functions which can instantly distinguish between such kinds of titles, and a reproduction apparatus and reproduction method for such disc

  • US 5,771,334 A
  • Filed: 04/11/1997
  • Issued: 06/23/1998
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/12/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A multimedia optical disc comprising a title area and a manager area, whereinthe title area stores a plurality of video titles, each of which is a video production and which each include route information and a plurality of pieces of video information retrieved according to the route information,wherein there are three types of video titles which are a first type, a second type, and a third type, with video titles of the first type being retrieved according to only a piece of route information, video titles of the second type being retrieved according to a plurality of pieces of route information and branch information, and video titles of the third type being retrieved according to a plurality of pieces of route information without the branch information,and wherein the manager area includes:

  • an address management information area for storing a plurality of pieces of address management information which each include an address of one of the plurality of video titles; and

    a playback type information area for storing a plurality of pieces of playback type information, wherein the plurality of pieces of playback type information correspond to the plurality of pieces of address management information, each of the plurality of pieces of playback type information including a first flag and a second flag, of which the first flag indicates whether a corresponding video title is retrieved according to a piece of route information or according to a plurality of pieces of route information, and the second flag indicates whether the route information of the corresponding video title includes the branch information.

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