Patent ID: 7791639

Claim:
A video processing apparatus, comprising: an output terminal, wherein the output terminal corresponds to an oPCR (output Plug Control Register) defined by IEC 61883-1; a reception unit that receives a first command and a second command from a control apparatus, wherein the first command is for locking a data format of the output terminal to a predetermined data format, and the second command is for not locking the data format of the output terminal to the predetermined data format; and a control unit that controls whether to lock the data format of the output terminal to the predetermined data format, wherein the control unit controls to lock the data format of the output terminal to the predetermined data format so that the output terminal cannot output data whose data format is different from the predetermined data format if the first command is received by the reception unit, wherein the control unit controls not to lock the data format of the output terminal to the predetermined data format so that the output terminal can output both data whose data format is the predetermined data format and data whose data format is different from the predetermined data format if the second command is received by the reception unit, and wherein the predetermined data format is one of DV format and MPEG2 format.