Patent ID: 8515250

Claim:
A video reproduction apparatus that reads, from a recording medium that stores a first file having recorded therein video data and a second file having audio data recorded in a physically continuous recording area, the first file and the second file and reproduces video and audio, the video reproduction apparatus comprising: audio data reading unit for reading the audio data in the second file from the recording medium; video data reading unit for reading the video data in the first file from the recording medium; read controlling unit for controlling read operations of the audio data reading unit and the video data reading unit; audio decoding unit for generating an audio signal from the audio data read by the audio data reading unit; video decoding unit for generating a video signal from the video data read by the video data reading unit; and a video buffer that stores the video data obtained by the video data reading unit, wherein, when the video data reading unit is to read the video data in the first file from the recording medium, the read controlling unit (i) performs read performance evaluation based on an amount of data stored in the video buffer, and (ii) when the amount of data is smaller than a predetermined threshold, controls the video data reading unit to output, to the video buffer, the same video data that was obtained during the last reading of the video data in the first file by the video data reading unit instead of reading new video data from the first file and outputting the new video data to the video buffer.