Method and apparatus for recording a data stream on a storage medium
AssigneeThomson Licensing
InventorsMarco Winter, Wolfgang Klausberger, Stefan Kubsch, Hartmut Peters, Uwe Janssen
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Abstract
The resistance against recording defects of a write-once optical disk is enhanced allowing realtime recording and playback of data streams with a single speed disk drive. A data stream is recorded in data blocks on the optical disk. An error correction block for one or more data blocks is generated and written on the same optical disk during recording. A spare data area is kept blank on the storage medium and used for storing a defect data block reconstructed by using the error correction block.
Claims4
A method for playing back a recorded data stream from a storage medium, wherein the data stream has been recorded in data blocks, the method comprising the steps of:
- reading payload blocks until a defect payload block is detected;
- upon detection of the defect payload block, jumping back to a replacement block and recovering the defect payload block by reading the replacement block;
- skipping the already read payload blocks;
- and
- continuing the reading of not yet read payload blocks;
- wherein the replacement block is read and buffered and further payload blocks are read until the defect payload block is detected.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.