Patent ID: 8266251

Claim:
A communication terminal that receives contents information distributed from a source of distribution, comprising: a receiving section that receives an input request and the contents information distributed from said source of distribution; a transcoder that decodes the contents information received from said receiving section, subsequently encodes the decoded contents information and outputs the resulting contents information; a decoding section that decodes the contents information from said transcoder; and an outputting section that outputs a signal decoded by said decoding section, wherein said transcoder that converts a leading frame of said contents information from said receiving section to a non-predicted frame in response to the input request, wherein frames other than the leading frame of said contents information are output in an unconverted state; said non-predicted frame or said frames output in the unconverted state are decoded and output in the decoded state; and said request is a request for connecting or switching the contents information, and in case of receipt of said input request, said receiving section provides said transcoder with information for decoding the contents information.