Abstract: There is a PSI receipt waiting time of two seconds or so from a start of decoding of an MPEG transport stream to actual display of AV data. There are provided first means of recording for recording a predetermined signal discretely including additional information of a program; means of controlling records for having said predetermined signal recorded by first means of recording; means of controlling reproduction for having said predetermined signal reproduced from said first means of recording; means of detecting PSI for detecting program specific information (PSI) from said predetermined signal; and means of adding PSI for adding said PSI to said predetermined signal.

Abstract: There is a PSI receipt waiting time of two seconds or so from a start of decoding of an MPEG transport stream to actual display of AV data. There are provided first means of recording 3 for recording a predetermined signal discretely including additional information of a program; means of controlling records 2 for having said predetermined signal recorded by first means of recording 3; means of controlling reproduction 4 for having said predetermined signal reproduced from said first means of recording 3; means of detecting PSI 1 for detecting program specific information (PSI) from said predetermined signal; and means of adding PSI 5 for adding said PSI to said predetermined signal.

Abstract: There is a PSI receipt waiting time of two seconds or so from a start of decoding of an MPEG transport stream to actual display of AV data. There are provided first means of recording 3 for recording a predetermined signal discretely including additional information of a program; means of controlling records 2 for having said predetermined signal recorded by first means of recording 3; means of controlling reproduction 4 for having said predetermined signal reproduced from said first means of recording 3; means of detecting PSI 1 for detecting program specific information (PSI) from said predetermined signal; and means of adding PSI 5 for adding said PSI to said predetermined signal.

Abstract: An interface circuit that accepts control commands for creating AV files, and a hard disk control circuit, are provided, and loop recording can be performed on the basis of an AV file. Further, in loop recording operation, a frame number of a first frame of an AV file is stored in an AV file area management table as an offset value, and a position of each frame is managed by assigning a corresponding frame number from a start of loop recording onward, thereby enabling position indication such that the record position and reproduce position increase with the passage of time, even in loop recording mode.

Abstract: A recording/reproducing apparatus disclosed herein uses a disk-type storage medium which has a spiral track divided into a plurality of continuous logical tracks. Each logical track extends at an angle less than 360.degree.. A head executes a track jump for retracing a desired logical track during tracing a logical track next to the desired track. Thus, no specific retrace area is necessary to be provided on the storage medium.