Patent ID: 8881211

Claim:
A video playback system that performs streaming playback of content recorded in a transmission apparatus, by a content playback apparatus connected via a network, wherein: the transmission apparatus includes: a content recorder that records the content; a management information recorder that records management information, including a plurality of playback timing information and a plurality of file offsets corresponding to the plurality of playback timing information of the content; a resource information generator that generates consumption resource information, associating the plurality of playback timing information of the content and a plurality of content band information based on the management information; and a transmission controller that controls transmission of the content and the consumption resource information, and the content playback apparatus includes: a content selector that selects content that is to be played back and requests the selected content from the transmission apparatus; a playback controller that acquires the selected content from the transmission apparatus via the network; a resource information acquirer that acquires the consumption resource information corresponding to the content; a content player that plays back the acquired content; and a resource predictor that calculates band information of the content that is played back after an elapse of time, based on a playback time obtained from the content player, playback mode information, and the consumption resource information, wherein the resource predictor calculates each of the plurality of content band information in the consumption resource information by dividing a difference between two file offsets of the plurality of file offsets in the management information by a difference between two of the plurality of playback timing information corresponding to the two file offsets in the management information.