Methods and apparatuses for reproducing and recording still picture and audio data and recording medium having data structure for managing reproduction of still picture and audio data

Abstract From the Canadian patent

In the method of reproducing still picture data in a first stream file and audio data in , a second stream file from a recording medium the still picture data and the , audio data reproduced from the recording medium are decoded based on respective independent system times (STCs). The first stream file does not include audio data , and the still picture data is reproduced as a slide show with the audio data. The still , picture data is outputted based on the still picture STC and presentation time stamps (PTSs) in the still picture data. The audio data is output based on the respective audio STC and PTSs in the audio data of the output of the decoded audio data is not synchronized …