Patent ID: 7720143

Claim:
A signal processing apparatus, comprising: a first demultiplexer for picking out first data corresponding to packet identifiers by demultiplexing packet data constituting TS data based on the packet identifiers for identifying the packet data, and for outputting the first data to a first video decoder; and a second demultiplexer for picking out second data corresponding to packet identifiers by demultiplexing packet data constituting the TS data based on the packet identifiers for identifying the packet data, and for outputting the second data to a second video decoder, wherein said second demultiplexer picks out the second data corresponding to demultiplexing the TS data except the packet identifiers including overlapping program information from all packet identifiers, wherein for the second video decoder, regarding predetermined operations for generating video data by decoding the data, the number of the predetermined operations that can be executed by the second video decoder for each unit time is lower than the number of the predetermined operations that can be executed by the first video decoder for each unit time.