Data recording digital video for playback at variable speed.

An apparatus for recording digital video data on a recording medium (31) comprising: - means for receiving digital video data; - means (36) to provide a portion of said digital video data as variable-speed data; and - recording means (28) for recording said digital video data and said variable-speed data in a main area and a subsidiary area in respectively successive tracks of said recording medium (31); - means (4) for determining the location of said subsidiary area, which is located on each of said tracks at a predetermined position corresponding to an area of ​​a track which is reproducible in form of fast speed, the recording medium (31 ) is transportable in said reproducing mode fast speed at a certain speed which is "M" times faster than the standard speed, where "M" an integer, and wherein said recording means (28) are operable to record the same variable rate data in said subsidiary area of ​​'M' of said tracks on said means for recording (31), and wherein each track includes a video area (SEC2), an audio area (SEC1), and subcode area (SEC3), whose subsidiary area of ​​each track is located in said audio area (SEC1), said audio area is disposed towards the same end of each track.