Patent ID: 7421641

Claim:
A method of reproducing streaming media with a control apparatus, the streaming media comprising a plurality of data sets, each data set having an optional error check field, and a multimedia data field for storing multimedia data, the control apparatus including a parameter, the method comprising: if the error check field of the data set exists, using the error check field to verify acceptability of the data set; if the acceptability of the data set is verified, decoding the multimedia data in the multimedia data field; if the acceptability of the data set is unable to be verified and the parameter indicates that the error check field no longer needs to be used to verify the acceptability of the data set, decoding the multimedia data in the multimedia data field; if the acceptability of the data set is unable to be verified and the parameter indicates that the error check field is to be used to verify the acceptability of the data set, storing the multimedia data field for later reference without decoding the multimedia data stored in the multimedia data field.