Patent ID: 8368811

Claim:
A reproducing apparatus, comprising: a decoder for decoding contents to output a first video signal, a first video clock signal, an audio signal and an audio clock signal; a generation section for generating a second video signal and a second video clock signal based on the audio clock signal; and an output section for outputting the audio signal, the second video signal and the second video clock signal but not for outputting the audio clock signal; wherein: when the audio signal is output to an audio reproducing apparatus via the output section, a vertical frequency of the first video signal and a vertical frequency of the second video signal are different from each other; and where a frequency of the second video clock signal is Vcf 2 and a frequency of the audio clock signal is Acf, CTS 2 and N 2 , which are parameters representing the frequency ratio of the second video clock signal and the audio clock signal, are represented by: CTS 2 =Vcf2 /Acf×N 2 ; and values of Vcf 2 and N 2 are set such that a calculated value of CTS 2 is an integer.