Patent ID: 8311105

Claim:
An information-processing apparatus for splicing a first encoded stream and a second encoded stream at a first splicing point set on said first encoded stream and a second splicing point set on said second encoded stream, said information-processing apparatus comprising: a decoding unit configured to decode a first part included in a re-encoding section as a part including said first splicing point set on said first encoded stream in order to generate a first base band signal and a second part included in said re-encoding section as a part including said second splicing point set on said second encoded stream in order to generate a second base band signal; an encoding unit configured to encode an edited signal obtained as a result of splicing said first base band signal and said second base band signal, which are generated by said decoding unit, at said first and second splicing points in order to generate a re-encoded stream; and a control unit configured to add a predetermined section, which is included in said second encoded stream as a section immediately lagging behind said re-encoding section, to said re-encoding section as a re-encoding extension of said re-encoding section in case continuity between the occupancy of the end point of said re-encoded stream generated by said encoding unit and the occupancy of a portion included in said second encoded stream as a portion corresponding to said end point is not sustained, wherein the encoding unit re-encodes both the re-encoding extension and the re-encoding section to generate the re-encoded stream to have the continuity maintained at a first P picture of the re-encoding extension.