Patent ID: 7853118

Claim:
A moving-picture-stream replay apparatus for intermittently acquiring compressed image data and displaying image data for moving-picture stream data of a preset standard, thereby realizing a special replay, the image replay apparatus comprising: a first-replay-start time acquisition section which acquires, in accordance with a replay speed N, a replay start time that indicates a time elapsing from a leading portion of the moving-picture stream data; a transmission section which transmits, to a server, a request signal to request the compressed image data corresponding to about 1 second of a replay time from the replay start time of the moving-picture stream data; a storage control section which stores, into a memory, part of the moving-picture stream data sent in response to the request signal; a transfer control section which searches the memory for the reference picture data, and transfers the reference picture data to a decoder; and a next-replay-start time acquisition section which computes a next replay start time after the reference picture data is transferred to the decoder.