The present invention provides an optical disk drive, optical disk recording
method, optical disk recording program and a recording medium having the optical
disk recording method recorded therein, applicable to a DVD drive, for example,
to permit recording of also a file of still pictures other than moving pictures
with a sufficient extension of the recording ability of the optical disk. To this
end, individual management information can be accessed via guide information for
an extended file in consideration and an identification code CAT ID indicative
of the type of the extended file and recording format CAT INFO TYPE of the management
information are allocated to the extension-file guide information.