Recording medium, method for searching contents recorded within the recording medium, and method and apparatus for reproducing the recorded contents

摘要

A recording medium includes an area having a plurality of contents recorded therein, and a management area having a search file for searching the contents recorded therein. The search file includes at least one entry classifying the contents by scenes and including information having an attribute defined for each scene. In a method for searching contents recorded within the recording medium, character information for each character map (C-Map) recorded within a search file in accordance with a contents search command is first provided. Then, item information for each at least one item map (IS-Map) corresponding to a selected character among the provided character information is provided. Thereafter, an entry corresponding to a selected item among the provided item information is provided. And, finally, the corresponding entry by using entry location information recorded within the selected entry among the provided entries is searched.