| abstract |
Various pieces of information expressed in various languages are recorded in a disk, and a reproduction apparatus can select speech and caption (characters) expressed in an arbitrary language and decode them so that the reproduction of disks and apparatus can be standardized world-wide so as to reduce the cost of production. Various pieces of information expressed in various languages and video information are stored in the disk (100). The reproduction apparatus select the information expressed in an arbitrary language from the reproduced information on the basis of a data string processing unit (203), a system control unit (204) and an operation unit (205), and sends the selected information to a video processing unit (205), a caption decoder and audio processing units (211, 213). |