Patent ID: 7751691

Claim:
A reproducing apparatus comprising: a reproducing unit configured to reproduce, from a recording medium, encoded video data of a plurality of pictures encoded by using an intra-picture encoding for encoding video data using the video data within the same picture and an inter-picture encoding for encoding difference data from a reference picture, the encoded video data including an intra-picture encoded picture every n pictures; an error correcting unit configured to correct an error in the encoded video data reproduced by the reproducing unit; a detecting unit configured to detect a picture including an error that is uncorrectable by the error correcting unit in the encoded video data reproduced by the reproducing unit; and a controller, responsive to a detection result of the detecting unit, configured to substitute the encoded video data of each of the plurality of inter-picture encoded pictures from the picture including the uncorrectable error detected by the detecting unit to a next intra-picture encoded picture in the encoded video data with predetermined encoded data indicating that difference data from the reference picture is zero, and to output the encoded video data including the substituted predetermined encoded data to a decoder which decodes the encoded video data.