The processes of storage and receiving subtitles compostasde flows of data bit of caption in a recording medium, apparatus for recording and retrieval of captions composed of streams of data bit of caption in / from a recording medium, and recording medium.

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To retrieve a subtitle and reproduce the subtitle at a variable speed by encoding the subtitle so that it is registered in subtitle stream data. ;SOLUTION: Subtitle buffering 68 uses sector information from a sectorizing part 100 in a data encoding device to generate TOC including the start sector address and end sector address of the subtitle and display time data for special reproduction of the subtitle. On a reception side, the TOC is read out and referenced to retrieve the subtitle and the display time data is referenced to reproduce the subtitle at a variable speed.;COPYRIGHT: (C)1997,JPO