There is provided a multimedia information encoding apparatus and a
multimedia information reproducing apparatus which enables synchronzied
reproduction of multimedia information such as audio data, video data,
and text data and performance information such as MIDI data to be easily
performed. The multimedia information encoding apparatus creates
multimedia encoded data comprising data packets each having a header
section that contains information on reproduction timing, and a data
section that at least contains information to be reproduced based on
performance information including event information. The event
information is converted into corresponding text codes, and the text
codes obtained by the conversion are stored as script data in the data
sections of the data packets that correspond in reproduction timing to
the text codes, and multimedia encoded data in which the data sections
contain the event information converted into the text codes is created.