DVD audio disk reproducing device and method thereof

Claims

We claim:

1. A DVD audio disk to store audio data, comprising:

information areas each storing an audio title information management table; and

respective data areas each storing audio packs of a linear pulse code modulated (PCM) mode;

wherein the audio title information management table includes a first, second or third number of quantization bits corresponding to the audio data, a first, second or third sampling frequency corresponding to the audio data, and information relative to a number of audio channels of the audio data, and each audio pack including audio packets having the first, second or third number of quantization bits, the first, second or third sampling frequency and the information relative to the number of channels which are recorded in the audio title management table, and the audio packets further containing coresponding portions of the audio data.

2. A DVD audio disk as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first, second and third quantization number of bits are 16, 20, and 24 bits, respectively, the first, second and third sampling frequencies are 48, 96, and 192 KHz, respectively, a maximum number of the audio channels being 13, and the number of channels being determined by the following equation 1: ##EQU3## wherein, Fs is the sampling frequency (Hz) of the audio data, Qb is the number of quantization bits of the audio data, Mbr is a maximum data transmission rate (Mbps) of the DVD audio disk, and N is a maximum number of recordable channels as determined by the maximum data transmission rate, sampling frequency, and the number of quantization bits of the DVD disk.

3. A DVD-Audio disk as claimed in claim 1, wherein if the audio coding mode is a compression coding system, a maximum number of said audio channels is determined by the following Eq. 2:

Eq. 2 ##EQU4## wherein Fs is the sampling frequency(Hz), Qb is the quantization bit number, Mb.gamma. is the maximum data transfer rate(Mbps) of the DVD-Audio disk, Cc.gamma. is a compression ratio according to a DTS compression coding system and N is the maximum number of said audio channels determined by data transfer rate, sampling frequency and quantization bit number of the DVD-Audio disk.

4. A DVD audio disk as claimed in claim 1, wherein the pseudo-lossless psychoacoustic coding mode uses a Digital Theater System (DTS) compressive coding mode, the first, second and third numbers of quantization bits of the audio data prior to compression are 16, 20, and 24 bits, respectively, the first, second and third sampling frequencies are 48, 96, and 192 KHz, respectively, a maximum number of the audio channels being 16, and the number of channels being determined by the following equation 2: ##EQU5## wherein, Fs is the sampling frequency (Hz) of the audio data, Qb is the number of quantization bits of the audio data, Mbr is a maximum data transmission rate (Mbps) of the DVD audio disk, Ccr is a compression ratio in accordance with the DTS compressive coding mode, and N is a maximum number of recordable channels as determined by the data transmission rate, the sampling frequency, the number of quantization bits, and the compression ratio of the DVD audio disk.

5. A DVD audio disk to store audio data, comprising:

information areas each storing a title information management table; and

respective data areas each storing sequential audio packs;

wherein the DVD audio disk conforms to the MPEG2 system layer standards;

wherein

the title information management table has an audio stream attribute area which includes an audio coding mode, a number of quantization bits, and a sampling frequency related to the audio packs, and information related to the number of audio channels

each of the audio packs includes a pack header and audio packets;

each of the audio packets includes a packet header, sub-stream ID, audio frame information, audio data information, and a portion of the audio data; and

the number of channels of audio data received is determined by the following equation 2: ##EQU6## and wherein, Fs is the sampling frequency (Hz), having a value of one of 48 KHz, 96 KHz and 192 KHz, Qb is the number of quantization bits having a value of one of 16 bits, 20 bits, and 24 bits, Mbr is a maximum data transmission rate (10.08 Mbps) of the DVD audio disk, Ccr is a compression ratio in accordance with a compressive coding mode, and N is a maximum number of recordable channels as determined by the data transmission rate, the sampling frequency, the number of quantization bits, and the compression ratio of the DVD audio disk.

6. A DVD audio disk reproducing device comprising:

a data receiver to receive audio data reproduced from a disk;

a controller to analyze the audio data reproduced from the disk to thereby generate an audio control signal containing an audio coding mode, a sampling frequency, a number of channels and quantization information;

an audio decoder having a plurality of decoders, one of the plurality of decoders to decode the audio data received after being selected according to the audio coding mode of the audio data, including multi-channel mixing, sampling frequency converting and requantizing the decoded audio data, according to the audio control signal; and

an audio output to convert the audio data into an analog audio signal.

7. A DVD audio disk reproducing device as claimed in claim 6, wherein the audio decoder comprises:

a stream selector to select one of a plurality of audio streams which form the audio data according to the audio coding mode;

a linear PCM decoder to decode the selected audio stream if the selected audio stream is a linear PCM audio stream output from the stream selector, the linear PCM decoder sampling frequency converting, multi-channel down mixing and requantizing the decoded audio data decoded according to the audio control signal; and

a data decoder to decode the selected audio stream if the selected audio stream is a compressed audio stream output from the stream selector, using a corresponding decompression algorithm, and to sampling frequency convert, multi-channel down mix and requantize the decoded audio data decoded according to the audio control signal.

8. A device for reproducing a DVD video/audio disk, comprising:

a data receiver to receive data retrieved from the disk;

a controller to analyze the data retrieved from the disk to discriminate a kind of the disk, the controller generating an audio control signal containing a video control signal, an audio coding mode, a sampling frequency, a number of channels and quantization information in case of the DVD video disk, or generating only the audio control signal in case of the DVD audio disk;

a stream parser to separate the analyzed data output from the data receiver into video and audio data;

a video decoder to decode the video data output from the stream parser;

a video output to NTSC encode the decoded video data, and convert the encoded video data to an analog video signal;

an audio decoder having a plurality of decoders, one of the decoders being selected according to the audio coding mode of the audio data to thereby decode the received audio data, including multi-channel mixing, sampling frequency converting and requantizing the audio data decoded, according to the audio control signal; and

an audio output to convert the decoded audio data to an analog audio signal.

9. A DVD video/audio disk reproducing device as claimed in claim 8, wherein the audio decoder comprises:

a stream selector to select one of a plurality of audio streams which form the audio data according to the audio coding mode;

a linear PCM decoder to decode the selected audio stream if the selected audio stream is a linear PCM audio stream output from the stream selector, the linear PCM decoder sampling frequency converting, multi-channel down mixing and requantizing the decoded audio data according to the audio control signal; and

a data decoder to decode the selected audio stream if the selected audio stream is a compressed audio stream output from the stream selector, using a corresponding decompression algorithm, the data decoder sampling frequency converting, multi-channel down mixing and requantizing the audio data decoded, according to the audio control signal.

10. A method for reproducing a DVD audio disk having information areas each having a title set information management table recorded therein, and respective data areas each having sequential audio packs recorded therein, the method comprising the steps of:

reading the title set information management table for a title to be reproduced, and confirming an audio coding mode, sampling frequency, quantization bit number and channel number of the audio data recorded relating to the title;

setting the audio decoding mode according to the confirmation;

controlling the DVD audio disk in a playback mode, decoding the audio data according to the set audio decoding mode, and performing sampling frequency conversion, multi-channel down mixing and requantization of the decoded data according to the audio coding mode to generate processed decoded audio data; and

converting the processed decoded audio data to an analog signal.

11. A method for reproducing a DVD audio disk having information areas each having a title set information management table recorded therein, and respective data areas each having sequential audio packs recorded therein, the method comprising the steps of:

reading the title set information management table of a title to be reproduced, and discriminating a kind of the DVD disk recorded;

confirming video control information and audio control information containing a coding mode, sampling frequency, quantization bit number and channel number of the audio data in case of the DVD video disk in the discrimination step, or confirming only the audio control information in case of the DVD audio disk;

setting an audio decoding mode according to the confirmation in case of the DVD audio disk;

controlling the DVD audio disk in a playback mode, decoding the audio data according to an audio coding mode, and performing sampling frequency conversion, multi-channel down mixing and requantization of the decoded data according to the audio coding mode, to generate processed decoded data; and

converting the processed decoded audio data to an analog signal.

12. A DVD audio disk to store audio data, comprising:

information areas each storing a title information table related to the audio data; and

respective data areas teach storing the audio data having a sampling frequency of about 192 KHz.

13. The DVD audio disk as claimed in claim 12, wherein the audio data has one of 16, 20 and 24 quantization bits.

14. The DVD audio disk as claimed in claim 12, wherein the audio data has 24 quantization bits.

15. The DVD audio disk as claimed in claim 12, wherein the title information table includes the sampling frequency, the number of quantization bits, and a number of audio channels of the audio data.

16. The DVD audio disk as claimed in claim 15, wherein the title information table includes at least four bits to indicate the number of audio channels of the audio data.

17. The DVD audio disk as claimed in claim 12, wherein the title information table includes at least four bits to indicate a number of audio channels of the audio data.

18. The DVD audio disk as claimed in claim 15, wherein the title information table further comprises a maximum data transfer rate of the DVD audio disk, and said digital audio data is sampled at the sampling frequency and quantized in the number of quantization bits with a number of channels of said digital audio data limited by said maximum data transfer rate.

19. The DVD audio disk as claimed in claim 18, wherein the title information management table further comprises compression ratio information of coding of the audio data, and the number of channels of the audio data is also limited by the compression ratio information.

20. The DVD audio disk as claimed in claim 19, wherein the audio data is coded as pseudo-lossless psychoacoustic coding.

21. The DVD audio disk as claimed in claim 20, wherein the pseudo-lossless psychoacoustic coding is performed with a DTS coding system.

22. The DVD audio disk as claimed in claim 18, wherein the audio data is coded as linear pulse code modulated (PCM) coding.

23. The DVD audio disk as claimed in claim 15, wherein the maximum bit rate is approximately 10.08 Mbps and the number of channels is 13.

24. The DVD audio disk as claimed in claim 15, wherein the title set management information table includes VTS.sub.-- MU.sub.-- AST.sub.-- ATR for information relating to up to eight audio channel of the audio data in a linear PCM mode, and information relating to additional audio channels of the audio data are stored in a reserved area of the information area after the VTS.sub.-- MU.sub.-- AST.sub.-- ATR.

25. The DVD audio disk as claimed in claim 12, wherein the title set management information table has a plurality of audio stream attributes each having an audio coding mode, a quantization bit number, and a sampling frequency, wherein if the audio coding mode is linear pulse code modulated (PCM) audio, a maximum number of said audio channels is determined by the following Eq. 1:

Eq. 1 ##EQU7## wherein Fs is the sampling frequency(Hz), Qb is the quantization bit number, Mb.gamma. is the maximum data transfer rate(Mbps) of the DVD-Audio disk, and N is the maximum number of said audio channels determined by the data transfer rate, sampling frequency and quantization bit number of the DVD-Audio disk.

26. The DVD audio disk as claimed in claim 12, wherein the title set management information table has a plurality of audio stream attributes each having an audio coding mode, a quantization bit number, and a sampling frequency, wherein if the audio mode is a compression coding system, a maximum number of said audio channels is determined by the following Eq. 2:

Eq. 2 ##EQU8## wherein Fs is the sampling frequency(Hz), Qb is the quantization bit number, Mb.gamma. is the maximum data transfer rate(Mbps) of the DVD-Audio disk, Cc.gamma. is a compression ratio according to a DTS compression coding system and N is the maximum number of said audio channels determined by data transfer rate, sampling frequency and quantization bit number of the DVD-Audio disk.

27. A DVD audio disk comprising:

information areas each storing an audio title having a title set management table with a plurality of audio stream attributes including an audio coding mode, a quantization bit number, a sampling frequency and decoding algorithm information relating to a number of audio channels of audio data,

respective data areas each including a plurality of audio packs having portions of said audio data corresponding to said decoding algorithm stored in said audio stream attribute and relating to the audio title;

wherein the number of audio channels is limited by a data transmission velocity of the DVD audio disk, the sampling frequency and the quantization bit number.

28. The DVD audio disk as claimed in claim 27, wherein if the audio coding mode is linear pulse code modulated (PCM) audio, a maximum number of said audio channels is determined by the following Eq. 1:

Eq. 1 ##EQU9## wherein Fs is the sampling frequency(Hz), Qb is the quantization bit number, Mb.gamma. is the maximum data transfer rate(Mbps) of the DVD-Audio disk, and N is the maximum number of said audio channels determined by the data transfer rate, sampling frequency and quantization bit number of the DVD-Audio disk.

29. The DVD audio disk as claimed in claim 27, wherein a compression rate of the audio data is between 1:1 and 5:1 for pseudo-lossless psychoacoustic coding.

30. The DVD audio disk as claimed in claim 24, wherein the compression rate of the audio data is 4:1 for the pseudo-lossless psychoacoustic coding.

31. The DVD audio disk as claimed in claim 24, wherein each title has corresponding amounts of the audio data having a sampling frequency of one of approximately 48, 96, and 192 KHz, a quantization bit number of one of 16, 20, and 24.

32. The DVD audio disk as claimed in claim 31, wherein the DVD audio disk has a maximum data transmission rate of approximately 10.08 Mbps.

33. The DVD audio disk as claimed in claim 27, wherein the title set management information table includes VTS.sub.-- MU.sub.-- AST.sub.-- ATR for information relating to up to eight audio channel of the audio data in a linear PCM mode, and information relating to additional audio channels of the audio data are stored in a reserved area of the information area after the VTS.sub.-- MU.sub.-- AST.sub.-- ATR.

34. The DVD audio disk as claimed in claim 27, wherein each of said audio packs comprises:

a pack header;

a packet header;

a sub-stream identification value;

stuffing frame information;

audio frame information; and

one of said portions of said audio data.

35. The DVD audio disk as claimed in claim 34, wherein said pack header is 14 bytes, said packet header is 1 byte, said sub-stream identification value is 1 byte, said stuffing frame information is 1 byte, said audio frame information is 3 bytes, and said one portion of said audio data is between 1 and 2013 bytes of linear pulse code modulated (PCM) data.

36. The DVD audio disk as claimed in claim 27, wherein each of said audio packs comprises:

a pack header;

a packet header;

a sub-stream identification value;

audio frame information; and

one of said portions of said audio data.

37. The DVD audio disk as claimed in claim 36, wherein the pack header is 14 bytes and each audio packet is between 1 and 2021 bytes of pseudo-lossless psychoacoustic data.

38. A DVD audio disk to store audio data, comprising:

information areas each storing a title set management information table related to the audio data; and

respective data areas each storing the audio data in a digital theater system (DTS) mode, wherein the audio data has more than six audio channels.

39. A DVD audio disk to store audio data, comprising:

information areas each storing a title set management information table related to the audio data; and

data areas each storing the audio data in a digital theater system (DTS) mode, wherein the audio data has a sampling frequency of at least approximately 96 KHz.

40. A DVD audio disk to store audio data, comprising:

information areas each storing a title set management information table related to the audio data; and

respective data areas each storing the audio data in a digital theater system (DTS) mode, wherein the audio data has a sampling frequency of approximately 192 KHz.

41. A DVD audio disk to store audio data, comprising:

information areas each storing a title information management table; and

respective data areas each storing a pseudo-lossless psychoacoustic coding mode;

wherein the title information management table includes a first, second or third number of quantization bits corresponding to the audio data, a first, second or third sampling frequency corresponding to the audio data, and information relative to a number of audio channels of the audio data, and each audio pack including audio packets having the first second or third number of quantization bits, the first, second or third sampling frequency and the information relative to the number of channels which are recorded in the title management table, and the packets further containing corresponding portions of the audio data.

42. An apparatus to reproduce data from a DVD disk, comprising:

a reading unit to read the data from the DVD disk;

a system controller to generate an audio control signal including an audio coding mode, a sampling frequency, and number of channels, and quantization information of audio data of the data stored on the DVD disk; and

an audio decoder including a plurality of decoders, wherein said system controller selects one of the plurality of decoders, based upon the audio control mode, to decode the audio data, including sampling frequency converting and requantizing the decoded audio data, according to the audio control signal.

43. The apparatus as claimed in claim 42, further comprising:

a data receiver to corrects errors in the read data;

said one decoder to decode said corrected data, to generate the decoded audio data;

a sampling digital filter to filter the decoded data; and

a digital/analog converter to convert the decoded data to an analog audio signal.

44. The apparatus as claimed in claim 43, wherein said audio decoder comprises:

a stream selector to determine whether said corrected data is linear pulse code modulated (PCM) coded or compression coded;

a linear PCM decoder to decode said linear PCM data to processed data according to a linear PCM decoding method;

a coding data decoder to decode said compression coded data to said processed data according to a corresponding compression decoding method; and

a digital formatter to format said processed data as said decoded data.

45. The apparatus as claimed in claim 42, wherein said system controller discriminates whether the DVD disk is a DVD audio disk or a DVD video disk and controls reproduction of the DVD disk in a DVD video format if the DVD disk is a DVD video disk.

46. The apparatus as claimed in claim 45, further comprising:

a data receiver to corrects errors in the read data;

said audio decoder being an audio/video decoder to decode the corrected data;

a video output circuit to convert the decoded data to an analog video signal, if the decoded data is indicative of video information and said system controller reproduces the data of the DVD video disk in the DVD video format;

a digital filter to filter the decoded data if the decoded data is indicative of audio information; and

an audio output circuit to convert the filtered data to an analog audio signal.

47. The apparatus as claimed in claim 46, wherein said video output circuit encodes said decoded data in NTSC to generate said analog video data.

48. The apparatus as claimed in claim 46, wherein said audio/video decoder comprises:

a stream parser to divide said corrected data which is indicative of the video information from the corrected data which is indicative of the audio information;

a video decoder to decode the corrected data indicative of the video information, to generate the decoded data indicative of the video information; and

an audio decoder to decode the corrected data indicative of the audio information, to generate the decoded in formation indicative of the audio information.

49. The apparatus as claimed in claim 48, wherein said plurality of decoders comprise:

a linear PCM decoder;

a Dolby AC-3 decoder;

a coding data decoder; and

an MPEG decoder;

wherein said system controller drives the corresponding one of said linear PCM decoder, Dolby AC-3 decoder, coding data decoder, and MPEG decoder, to decode the corrected data indicative of the audio information based upon a coding format of the corrected data indicative of the audio information.

50. The apparatus as claimed in claim 42, wherein the audio data has a sampling frequency of 192 Khz.

51. The apparatus as claimed in claim 42, wherein the audio data is in a digital theater system (DTS) mode, and has more than six audio channels.

52. The apparatus as claimed in claim 42, wherein the audio data is in a digital theater system (DTS) mode, and has a sampling frequency of at least approximately 96 KHz.

53. The apparatus as claimed in claim 42, wherein the audio data is in a digital theater system (DTS) mode, and has a sampling frequency of approximately 192 KHz.

54. An apparatus to reproduce data from a disk which is a DVD audio disk and from a DVD video disk, comprising:

a reading unit to read the data from the disk;

a system controller to distinguish the disk as the DVD audio disk or the DVD video disk; and

an audio decoder including a plurality of decoders, wherein said system controller selects one of the plurality of decoders, based upon an audio control mode of the data and the determination of whether the disk is a DVD video disk or a DVD audio disk, to decode the data if the data is audio data.

55. The apparatus as claimed in claim 54, further comprising a video decoder to decode the data if the disk is a DVD video disk and the data is video data.

56. A method for reproducing data from a DVD disk, comprising the steps of:

(a) reading a title set management table of a title to be reproduced;

(b) reading VTSM.sub.-- AST.sub.-- ATR of the title set management table to determine a coding mode of the data; and

(c) decoding the data based upon the determined coding mode.

57. The method as claimed in claim 56, wherein:

(b1) said step (b) further comprises the step of reading a sampling frequency and number of quantization bits; and

(c1) said step (c) further comprises the step of decoding the data based upon the sampling frequency and the number of quantization bits.

58. The method as claimed in claim 57, wherein the sampling frequency is 192 KHz, the data is audio data, and said step (c1) decodes the audio data of 192 KHz in accordance with the decoding algorithm and the number of quantization bits.

59. The method as claimed in claim 57, further comprising the step of discriminating whether is the DVD disk is a DVD video disk or a DVD audio disk based upon the coding mode, sampling frequency and number of quantization bits, wherein said step (c1) further comprises the step of decoding the data based upon whether is DVD disk is the DVD video disk or the DVD audio disk.

60. The method as claimed in claim 57, comprising the steps of:

(c1) muting an analog audio output of the decoded data;

(c2) selecting a digital filter program according to the sampling frequency;

(c3) determining a length of the decoded data;

(c4) initializing a deemphasis flag;

(c5) starting an interrupt; and

(c6) releasing the mute of the analog audio output.

61. The method as claimed in claim 57, comprising the steps of:

performing 32-fold oversampling digital filtering of the decoded data if the sampling frequency is 48 KHz, 16-fold oversampling of the decoded data if the sampling frequency is 96 KHz, and performing 8-fold oversampling digital filtering of the decoded data if the sampling frequency is 192 KHz.

62. The method as claimed in claim 56, wherein said step (c) comprises the steps of:

determining whether a channel number of the data is greater than eight or has a sampling frequency of approximately 192 KHz if the coding mode is a linear pulse code modulated (PCM) mode, and determining the DVD disk to be a DVD audio disk if the channel number is greater than 8 or has the sampling frequency of 192 KHz in the linear PCM mode;

determining whether the channel number is greater than 6 or the sampling frequency is at least 96 KHz if the coding mode is a digital theater system (DTS) mode, and determining the DVD disk to be the DVD audio disk if in the DTS mode the channel number is greater than six or the sampling frequency is at least 96 KHz; and

otherwise determining the DVD disk to be a DVD video disk.

63. The method as claimed in claim 56, wherein said step (c) comprises the steps of:

(c1) determining whether the coding mode is a linear pulse code modulated (PCM) mode;

(c2) determining whether a channel number of the data is greater than eight or has a sampling frequency of approximately 192 KHz if the coding mode is the linear PCM mode, and determining the DVD disk to be a DVD audio disk if the channel number is greater than 8 or has the sampling frequency of 192 KHz;

(c3) determining whether the coding mode is a digital theater system (DTS) mode if the coding mode is not the linear PCM mode or said step (c2) determines that the channel number is not greater than eight or the sampling frequency is not approximately 192 KHz; and

(c4) determining whether the channel number is greater than 6 or the sampling frequency is at least 96 KHz if the coding mode is the DTS mode, and determining the DVD disk to be the DVD audio disk if in the DTS mode the channel number is greater than six or the sampling frequency is at least 96 KHz, otherwise determining the DVD disk to be a DVD video disk.

64. The method as claimed in claimed 56, comprising the steps of:

determining an operation status of the decoding of the data; and

interrupting the decoding if an abnormality on the operation status is determined, and then performing a cure algorithm to remove the abnormality.

65. The method as claimed in claim 56, further comprising the steps of:

(d) determining whether there is a menu in the title set management table;

(e) determining whether the menu is to be played back; and

(f) reproducing the menu to be played back.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention

The present invention relates to an audio disk, a device and method for reproducing audio data recorded thereon, and more particularly, to a disk on which high-quality audio data is recorded and a device and method for reproducing audio data recorded on the disk.

2. Description of the Related Art

Generally speaking, audio data recorded on a compact disk (CD) is sampled at 44.1 KHz, and each of the samples is audio data quantized by 16 bits. Such a CD is advantageous in usage and storage, as compared with a phonograph record (LP), while it has often been stated that the CD has a decreased sound quality. For instance, in the case that audio data sampled at 44.1 KHz and quantized by 16 bits is reproduced, it is difficult to reproduce the original sound and it may be deteriorated as compared with the disk used in the generation prior to CD. Actually, human beings' audible range may be over 20 KHz, and the dynamic range should be 120 dB. With the CD, it is impossible to record or reproduce audio data related to multi-channel music which has increasingly concentrated interest, because it can record only an audio signal of a maximum of two channels.

Coping with those problems, there have been suggested methods of improving the sound quality which is reproduced, by increasing the sampling frequency of the audio data and the number of recording channels.

Currently, one kind of disk reproducing device is designed to reproduce a variety of disks. One of those disks is a digital versatile disk (DVD). With the DVD, video and audio data is recorded at a high density, and the video data is recorded in the MPEG format. The audio data is recorded in the linear pulse code modulation (PCM), Dolby AC-3, or MPEG format. The device for reproducing the DVD video disk has a configuration of reproducing video/audio data so as to retrieve the video/audio data recorded on the DVD video disk.

In each of information areas of the DVD video disk, a video title set information management table (VTSI.sub.-- MAT) is recorded, and in the data areas sequential thereto, the audio/video data are recorded. The audio data recorded on the data areas of the DVD video disk have the structure of an audio pack. Here, first, the VTSI.sub.-- MAT and then the structure of the audio pack will be discussed.

As mentioned above, the DVD video disk has the VTSI.sub.-- MAT which contains information for reproducing video data and audio data. This is shown in the following tables 1a, 1b, 2a and 2b.

TABLE 1a __________________________________________________________________________ RBP Contents Number of Bytes __________________________________________________________________________ 0 to 11 VTS.sub.-- ID VTS Identifier l2 bytes 12 to 15 VTS.sub.-- EA END address of VTS 4 bytes 16 to 27 Reserved Reserved l2 bytes 28 to 31 VTSI.sub.-- EA End address of VTSI 4 bytes 32 to 33 VERN Version number of DVD 2 bytes Video Specification 34 to 37 VTS.sub.-- CAT VTS Category 4 bytes 38 to 127 Reserved Reserved 90 bytes 128 to 131 VTSI.sub.-- MAT.sub.-- EA End address of VTSI.sub.-- MAT 4 bytes __________________________________________________________________________

TABLE lb __________________________________________________________________________ 132 to 191 Reserved Reserved 6O bytes 192 to 195 VTSM.sub.-- VOBS.sub.-- SA Start address of VTSM.sub.-- VOBS 4 bytes 196 to 199 VTS.sub.-- VOBS.sub.-- SA Start address of VTSTT.sub.-- VOBS 4 bytes 200 to 203 VTS.sub.-- PTT.sub.-- SR.PPT.sub.-- SA Start address of VTS.sub.-- PTT.sub.-- SRPT 4 bytes 204 to 207 VTS.sub.-- PGCIT.sub.-- SA Start address of VTS.sub.-- PFCIT 4 bytes 208 to 211 VTSM.sub.-- PGCI.sub.-- UT.sub.-- SA Start address of VTSM.sub.-- PGCI.sub.-- UT 4 bytes 212 to 215 VTS.sub.-- TMAPT.sub.-- SA Start address of VTS.sub.-- TMAPT 4 bytes 216 to 219 VTSM.sub.-- C.sub.-- ADT.sub.-- SA Start address of VTSM.sub.-- C.sub.-- ADT 4 bytes 220 to 223 VTSM.sub.-- VOBU.sub.-- ADMAP.sub.-- SA Start address of VTSM.sub.-- VOBU.sub.-- ADMAP 4 bytes 224 to 227 VTS.sub.-- C.sub.-- AST.sub.-- SA Start address of VTS.sub.-- C.sub.-- ADT 4 bytes 228 to 231 VTS.sub.-- VOBU.sub.-- ADMAP.sub.-- SA Start address of VTS.sub.-- VOBU.sub.-- ADMAP 4 bytes __________________________________________________________________________

TABLE 2a __________________________________________________________________________ RBP Contents Number of Bytes __________________________________________________________________________ 232 to 255 Reserved Reserved 24 bytes 256 to 257 VTSM.sub.-- V.sub.-- ATR Video attribute of VTSM 2 bytes 258 to 259 VTSM.sub.-- AST.sub.-- Ns Number of Audio streams of VTSM 2 bytes 260 to 267 VTSM.sub.-- AST.sub.-- ATR Audio stream attribute of VTSM 8 bytes 268 to 323 Reserved Reserved 56 bytes 324 to 339 Reserved Reserved l6 bytes 340 to 341 VTSM.sub.-- SPST.sub.-- Ns Number of Sub-picture streams of 2 bytes VTSM 342 to 347 VTSM.sub.-- SPST.sub.-- ATR Sub-picture stream attribute of 6 bytes VTSM __________________________________________________________________________

TABLE 2b __________________________________________________________________________ 348 to 511 Reserved Reserved 164 bytes 512 to 513 VTS.sub.-- V.sub.-- ATR Video attribute of VTS 2 bytes 514 to 515 VTSM.sub.-- AST.sub.-- Ns Number of Audio streams of VTS 2 bytes 516 to 579 VTS.sub.-- AST.sub.-- ATRT Audio stream attribute table of VTS 6.4 bytes 580 to 595 Reserved Reserved 16 bytes 596 to 597 VTS.sub.-- SPST.sub.-- Ns Number of Sub-Picture streams of VTS 2 bytes 598 to 789 VTS.sub.-- SPST.sub.-- ATRT Sub-picture stream attribute table of l92 bytes 790 to 791 Reserved Reserved 2 bytes 792 to 983 VTS.sub.-- MU.sub.-- AST.sub.-- ATRT Multichannel Audio stream attribute table l92 bytes of VTS 984 to 1023 Reserved Reserved 40 bytes 1024 to 2047 Reserved Reserved 1024 bytes __________________________________________________________________________

In the VTSI.sub.-- MAT of tables 1a, 1b, 2a and 2b, VTSM.sub.-- AST.sub.-- ATR of RBP 260-267 indicates the audio stream attribute of VTSM.sub.-- VOBS, which is shown in FIG. 1. The respective fields' values become the internal information of the audio stream of VTSM.sub.-- VOBS. Referring to FIG. 1, the information of the audio coding mode recorded on b63-b61 is stored as in the following table 3.

TABLE 3 ______________________________________ b63-b61 Audio Coding Mode ______________________________________ 000b Dolby AC-3 010b MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 where no extension bit stream exists 011b MPEG-1 where extension bit stream exists 100b Linear PCM Audio others Reserved ______________________________________

In b55-b54, quantization/DRC information is stored as follows. If the audio coding mode is "000b", 11b is recorded. If the audio coding mode is 010b or 011b, the quantization information is defined as follows.

00b: the dynamic range control data is not present in the MPEG audio stream.

01b: the dynamic range control data is present in the MPEG audio stream.

10b: reserved

11b: reserved

If the audio coding mode is 100b, the quantization information is stored as shown in table 4.

TABLE 4 ______________________________________ b55-b54 Quantization DRC ______________________________________ 00b 16 bits 01b 20 bits 10b 24 bits 11b Reserved ______________________________________

b53-b52, indicative of sampling frequency fs in FIG. 1, is shown in table 5.

TABLE 5 ______________________________________ b53-b52 fs ______________________________________ 00b 48 KHz 01b 96 KHz 10b Reserved 11b Reserved ______________________________________

b50-b28, indicative of the number of audio channels in FIG. 1, is shown in table 6.

TABLE 6 ______________________________________ b50-b28 Number of Audio Channels ______________________________________ 000b 1ch (mono) 001b 2ch (stereo) 010b 3ch (nultichannel) 011b 4ch (multichannel) 100b 5ch (multichannel) 101b 6ch (multichannel) 110b 7ch (multichannel) 111b 8ch (multichannel) others Reserved ______________________________________

In the VTSI.sub.-- MAT of the tables 1a, 1b, 2a and 2b, VTS.sub.-- AST.sub.-- ATRT of RBP 516-579 indicates the audio stream attribute of VTS, which is shown in FIG. 2. The respective fields' values become the internal information of the audio stream of VTSM.sub.-- VOBS. Referring to FIG. 2, the information of the audio coding mode recorded on b63-b61 is stored as in the following table 7.

TABLE 7 ______________________________________ b63-b61 Audio Coding Mode ______________________________________ 000b Dolby AC-3 010b MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 where no extension bit stream exists 011b MPEG-2 where extension bit stream exists 100b Linear PCM Audio 110b DTS (option) 111b SDDS (option) others Reserved ______________________________________

The multi-channel extension of b60 is an area which stores information indicative of whether the multi-channel extension is executed or not. If 0b is recorded, this means that the multi-channel extension is not selected. If 1b is recorded, this means that the multi-channel extension is performed according to the information of VTS.sub.-- MU.sub.-- AST.sub.-- ATRT recorded on RBP 792-983.

The audio type of b59-b58 is shown as in the following table 8.

TABLE 8 ______________________________________ b59-b59 Audio Type ______________________________________ 00b Not Specified 01b Language Included others Reserved ______________________________________

The audio application mode of b57-56 is shown in the following table 9.

TABLE 9 ______________________________________ b57-b56 Audio Application Mode ______________________________________ 00b Not Specified 01b Karaoke Mode 10b Surround Mode 11b Reserved ______________________________________

The quantization/DRC, sampling frequency fs, and the number of audio channels are shown in tables 4, 5, and 6, respectively.

In the VTSI.sub.-- MAT of tables 1a, 1b, 2a and 2b, the VTS.sub.-- MU.sub.-- AST.sub.-- ATRT of RBP 792-983 indicates the multi-channel audio stream attribute table of VTS, which is shown in FIGS. 3A and 3B. This VTS.sub.-- MU.sub.-- AS