Patent ID: 7672564

Claim:
An information processing apparatus, comprising: acquisition means for acquiring predetermined content data including a plurality of access units which are reproduced by a predetermined reproduction device, wherein said reproduction device is a digital video tape recorder and said content data is recorded to a digital video tape loaded on said digital video tape recorder; acquisition stop control means for monitoring, among time information included in each of said plurality of access units reproduced by said reproduction device, a recording time at which each of said plurality of access units was recorded and, when said recording time of a first access unit, from said plurality of access units, currently being monitored is earlier than said recording time of a second access unit monitored temporally before said first access unit, stopping the acquisition of said content data; reproduction control means for controlling, in response to a request from said acquisition means, any of operations of reproduction, fast feeding, and rewinding said digital video tape loaded on said digital video tape recorder and an operation of stopping any of said operations, wherein said acquisition means, when starting an acquisition process of said content data; requests said reproduction control means to reproduce said digital video tape loaded on said digital video tape recorder and, when the acquisition process of said content data is stopped by said acquisition stop control means, requests said reproduction control means to stop the requested reproduction.