Method for copying, recording, and editing data onto disk recording media, and disk recording apparatus
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorsShuji Inoue, Naokazu Susa
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Abstract
A method for copying data in disk recording media, and disk recording apparatus. At copying data recorded in a disk to another disk, occurrence of seek at the copy source is eliminated or suppressed below a specified value during reading data to reduce read time. At the target disk, data is rearranged according to video scenes or files, or file control information is rewritten to maintain the data structure of the copy source.
Claims32
A method for copying data in a disk recording medium, wherein data is read out from a copy source in one way of i) without executing seeking, and ii) suppressing the occurrence of seeking below a specified value, during copying of data recorded in one disk recording medium in which one and more tracks for recording data are divided into blocks with a specified length to another disk recording medium, and is transferred to a copy target disk;
- and the data structure of the copy source is maintained at the copy target disk by one of i) rearranging each file, and ii) rewriting file control information at the copy target disc.
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