A recording apparatus is provided with a receiving device which simultaneously receives a plurality of broadcast video signals; a multiplexing device which obtains a plurality of broadcast video signals from the receiving device, putts each of the plurality of broadcast video signals into packets and converts the packets into time-division multiplexed data; and a control device which records the time-division multiplexed data in a memory apparatus in packet units using a ring buffer method and in the order of recording position, and forms chapter units in the memory apparatus from a specified group of packets for the same program when performing records.