The method of recording data, the data reproducing apparatus and a recording medium

The first file 401 contains management data 404. The 404, the management information about a plurality of transport streams 406 and 407 constituting the second file 403 is recorded. The third file 402, contains only time map data 405 indicating the relationship between time and recording position of one of the transport stream 406, time map data is not included regarding the other transport stream 407. In this arrangement, multistream data, multichannel data, or full TS data, is recorded as the transport stream 407. Thus, in the video recorder DVD, etc. easily realize the multi-stream recording, or multi-channel recording full TS recording.