Method for recording and reproducing a parent playback control information

PURPOSE: A method for recording and playing parental playback control information is provided to generate and record playback control information such as parental level information, to selectively play or restrict the playback for data stored in an optical recording medium, and to control playback operations to be selectively performed according to the playback control information. CONSTITUTION: Parental level information is recorded and managed by the unit of cell information, that is a layer unit lower than the unit of a plurality of programs connected to one PGC(ProGram Chain) to be continuously played with time continuity. The cell information is playback control information generated and recorded correspondingly to VOBs(Video OBjects) sectioned and recorded with time continuity, wherein a plurality of VOBs configure one program and a plurality of programs configure one PGC. The parental level information is included in cell playback information(C_PBI). The cell playback information includes call category(C_CAT), cell playback time(C_PBTM), start address of the first VOBU in the cell(C-FVOBU_SA), start address of the last VOBU in the cell(C_LVOBU_SA), end address of the last VOBU in the cell(C_LVOBU_EA), and information of parental level in the cell(C_PTL_INFO).