Trick-play modes for pre-encoded video

An apparatus for reproducing video programs, comprising:

• means for storing a plurality of video program records, each program record having a set of digitally encoded signal records;
• means for linking each of said encoded signal records in each of said sets to one another at predetermined jump points for selecting between said digitally encoded signal records, wherein said linking means comprises N sets of tables, each set having (N−1) tables of said predetermined jump points for each of N reproduction speeds;
• and,
• each said set of digitally encoded signal records having records of differing sizes for reproduction at a plurality of speeds.

An apparatus for reproduction of compressed digital images at a plurality of speeds, said apparatus comprising:

• a storage device having stored therein compressed program records, each program record containing multiple versions where each version of said multiple versions allows reproduction at a different play speed, and tables of predetermined temporally similar addresses within each version of said each program record for selection between the different play speed records;
• transducing means for reproducing images from said compressed program records;
• and,
• control means responsive to user program selection for selecting one of said program records, and in accordance with a play speed selection selecting one of said multiple versions, said control means being additionally responsive to user determined new play speed for reading said tables and generating predetermined addresses within another one of said multiple versions for transducing in correspondence with said user determined new play speed.