Patent ID: 7058281

Claim:
A recording and reproducing apparatus for inputting, recording, reproducing and outputting a stream of TS packets, comprising: an input counter operable to generate an arrival time for each of the TS packets input to the apparatus; a time adder operable to add said arrival time to respective ones of the TS packets; a recording medium; a controller operable to control recording so that the TS packets to which said arrival time has been added are recorded onto said recording medium and to control reproduction so that the TS packets to which said arrival time has been added are reproduced from said recording medium; an output counter operable to generate an output time for each of the TS packets reproduced from said recording medium; a variable speed counter operable to fluctuate a time base of said output times generated by said output counter; and an output controller operable to control reproduction so that, for each TS packet reproduced from said recording medium, said arrival time is extracted and compared with said output time, and when said arrival time reaches a time corresponding to said output time, the TS packet reproduced from said recording medium is output, wherein a variable speed reproduction is executed by fluctuating said time base of said output times generated by said output counter.