Patent ID: 7092615

Claim:
A content reproducing apparatus comprising: a reproducing unit operable to reproduce a content, the content being stream data divided into a plurality of replay segments; an obtaining unit operable to obtain an alternative data and additional information indicating, for each of the replay segments, whether reproduction of data of the replay segment is skippable; an accepting unit operable to accept a skip instruction that instructs skipping reproduction of a first replay segment that is currently being reproduced, from a user while the content is being reproduced; a judging unit operable to judge whether or not reproduction of the data of the first replay segment is skippable by referring to the additional information; and a controlling unit operable to: (A) when the judgment result of the judging unit is affirmative, control so that the reproduction of the data of the first replay segment is skipped; and (B) when the judgment result of the judging unit is negative, control so that the alternative data is reproduced in place of an unreproduced part of the data of the first replay segment, and data of a second replay segment is reproduced when the reproducing of the alternative data is completed, the first replay segment being one of the plurality of replay segments in the content, and the second replay segment being located after the first replay segment on a reproducing time-line of the content.