High efficiency encoder and video information recording/reproducing apparatus

A method for transforming data comprising at least the steps of:

• encoding by an encoder by using an intra-mode at least one field of a video signal to be inputted on a field basis and storing the encoded field of the video signal as a reference picture;
• and
• encoding by said encoder the other fields of the video signal by using a predictive encoding mode with a motion compensation prediction with respect to the reference picture;
• wherein the encoding step using the intra-mode or the predictive encoding mode include a variable length encoding process,
• the method for transforming data further comprising a step of adding data to the video signal, encoded with the intra-mode or the predictive encoding mode, that is to be ignored during decoding, and dividing and embedding the signal into a plurality of segments having fixed lengths,
• wherein the number of the segments is variable to which the video signal encoded by the intra-mode and the predictive encoding mode is embedded a size of a prediction block for motion detection in the predictive encoding mode is i pixels×j lines (i≠j), wherein the encoding comprises:
• performing a block-based intra-mode transformation of at least a first portion of the video signal by an intra-mode transforming unit;
• and
• performing a block-based predictive-mode transformation of at least a second portion of the video signal by a predictive-mode transforming unit,
• said intra-mode transforming unit performing the intra-mode transformation on the basis of fields of the at least first portion of the video signal in a field-based video signal,
• said intra-mode transforming unit performing the intra-mode transformation on the basis of frames of the at least first portion of the video signal in a frame-based video signal,
• said predictive-mode transforming unit performing the predictive-mode transformation on the basis of fields of at least the second portion of the video signal in the field-based video signal, and
• said predictive-mode transforming unit performing the predictive-mode transformation on the basis of frames of at least the second portion of the video signal in the frame-based video signal,
• wherein an intra-block, coded using intra-mode transformation, may be included within a predictive field or predictive frame, and
• said video signal contains an intra-mode signal for said intra-block, said intra-mode signal being generated for each intra-block within said predictive-fields or a predictive-frame that has been transformed by using the intra-mode transformation, and
• detecting a frame or a field corresponding to a scene cut included in said video signal by a scene cut detecting unit, wherein said intra-mode transforming unit may transform said field or said frame using said intra-mode transformation, when scene cut detecting unit detects said scene cut.