Patent ID: 8140956

Claim:
A reproduction apparatus, having hardware elements, comprising: a calculation unit configured to calculate a minimum reproduction delay period and maximum reproduction delay time, wherein the minimum reproduction delay period being a minimum value of a reproduction delay time from a starting position to read the data from a recording medium to a starting position to reproduce the data, which is required to reproduce the data in real time; a setting unit configured to set a countdown time that is a predetermined unit time equal to or greater than the minimum reproduction delay period and less than the maximum reproduction delay time, which is calculated on a basis of a reproduction condition from the setting unit, wherein the reproduction condition comprises a required reproduction rate, a reading rate at the time of reading data from the storage medium, an available storage capacity, a seek time function, and media access information; and a countdown unit configured to perform a countdown from a time before the set countdown time prior to a time at which reproduction of the data is started.