Patent ID: 8744248

Claim:
A moving picture playback device, comprising: a playback unit configured to be capable of playing back a moving picture at a first playback speed and a second playback speed that is faster than the first playback speed; a detection unit configured to detect information about a recording frame rate of each frame of a moving picture being played back by the playback unit; a receiving unit configured to receive an instruction to change the playback speed of the moving picture at the playback unit; and a control unit configured to control such that when an instruction to change the playback speed to the first playback speed is received by the receiving unit while the playback unit is playing back the moving picture at the second playback speed, the playback unit goes back from a played back frame being played back upon the receipt of the instruction and plays back the moving picture at the first playback speed from a first frame of a plurality of frames continuously recorded at the same recording frame rate as the played back frame, wherein the plurality of frames include the played back frame.