Patent ID: 8718148

Claim:
An information processing apparatus comprising: a computation block configured to compute a VBV occupation amount of a VBV occupation amount target picture included in plural VBV occupation amount target pictures from a VBV delay of the VBV occupation amount target picture, the VBV occupation amount target picture being variable-length encoded data to be replaced by replacing data, and to set limits of the VBV occupation amount based on a predetermined VBV occupation error, the predetermined VBV occupation error being greater than an actual error calculated based on the VBV delay and representing an error maximum value calculated based on the maximum value of bit rates among the plural VBV occupation amount target pictures; and an encoding block configured to variable-length encode said replacing data on the basis of said VBV occupation amount of said VBV occupation amount target picture computed by said computation block, VBV standing for Video Buffering Verifier.