Claims
- 1. A method for playing back a selected one of a plurality of discrete audio mesage units included in a block of composite digital audio data recorded on a record medium as a first sequential series of said plurality of discrete audio message units, and a second sequential series of a corresponding plurality of message pointer units, the entirety of said second sequential series occurring on the record medium upstream of the entirety of said first sequential series, said method comprising the steps of:
- employing a player means for recovering said block of composites digital audio data from the record medium;
- storing said recovered block of composite digital audio data within an addressable digital data storage means operatively associated with said player means, with each of said message pointer units being stored at respective, fixed storage locations within said storage means, and each of said audio message units being stored at respective, predetermined storage locations within said storage means;
- generating a coded message select command signal indentifying the selected one of said plurality of audio message units;
- employing means operatively associated with said storage means and responsive to said coded message select command signal for retrieving said message pointer unit corresponding to said selected audio message unit from its said fixed storage location within said storage means, wherein each of said message pointer units includes sampling rate code information indicative of a predetermined digital sampling rate at which its corresponding said audio message unit is to be decoded, said operatively associated means being further responsive to said coded message select command signal for retrieving said selected audio message unit from its said predetermined storage location within said storage means;
- deriving said sampling rate code information from said retrrieved message pointer unit corresponding to said selected audio message unit;
- employing means responsive to said derived sampling rate code information for decoding the retrieved said selected audio message unit at said predetermined digital sampling rate indicated by said derived sampling rate code information; and,
- employing said player means to play back the decoded said selected audio mesage unit.
- 2. The method as set forth in claim 1, wherein said plurality of discrete audio message units are discretely associated with a single frame of video data also recorded on the record medium, and wherein further, said method further comprises the step of employing said player means to play back said single frame of video data associated with said plurality of discrete audio message units, in a stop-motion mode of operation, in conjunction with said step of employing said player means to play back the decoded said selected audio message unit.
- 3. The method as set forth in claim 1, wherein said fixed storage locations are sequentially addressed.
- 4. The method as set forth in claim 1, wherein said predetermined storage locations are sequentially addressed.
- 5. The method as set forth in claim 1, wherein said predetermined digital sampling rate indicated by said message pointer units is variable.
- 6. The method as set forth in claim 1, wherein at least preselected ones of said predetermined digital sampling rates indicated by said message pointer units are different from each other.
- 7. The method as set forth in claim 1, wherein the length of at least preselected successive ones of said audio message units differs.
- 8. The method as set forth in claim 1, wherein the length of said plurality of discrete audio message units is variable.
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATlON
This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 342,291, filed Jan. 25, 1982 now abandoned.
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