Patent ID: 7941235

Claim:
A playback apparatus comprising: a communication portion that receives decompressed digital data obtained by decoding compressed digital data that is compression encoded using a specified encoding unit; a first buffer that temporarily stores the decompressed digital data that is received by the communication portion; a second buffer that temporarily stores the decompressed digital data that is read from the first buffer; a D/A conversion portion that performs D/A conversion on the decompressed digital data that is read from the second buffer, and outputs analog data; and a control portion that controls transfer of the decompressed digital data from the first buffer to the second buffer; wherein, when a transmission finished notification for a kth decompressed digital data is received via the communication portion, the control portion: detects a silence start position in the kth decompressed digital data that is stored in the first buffer, transfers to the second buffer a section of the kth decompressed digital data that is before the silence start position, temporarily stores (k+1)th decompressed digital data that is received via the communication portion in the first buffer following the transfer of the section of the kth decompressed digital data to the second buffer, detects a silence end position in the (k+1)th decompressed digital data that is stored in the first buffer, and transfers to the second buffer a section of the (k+1)th decompressed digital data that is after the silence end position.