Patent ID: 8176197

Claim:
A server device in a contents transmitting system including the server device and a client device connected to each other through a network in a communicable way, for transmitting content data recorded in the server device to the client device, the server device comprising: an encode parameter deciding unit that decides encode parameters of a reproduction start portion of the content data so as to be a different encode rate from an encode rate for a transmission bandwidth in the network, wherein the encode parameters are decided by the encode parameter deciding unit such that an average encode rate in a reproduction time of the reproduction start portion becomes lower than the encode rate for the transmission bandwidth in the network; an encoder that encodes the reproduction start portion with the encode parameters; and a recording unit that stores the reproduction start portion encoded in the encoder; wherein the server device transmits the reproduction start portion stored in the recording unit to the client device, when the server device receives a reproduction request of the content data from the client device, encodes the portion other than the reproduction start portion of the content data at the encode rate for the transmission bandwidth in the network, and transmits the encoded portion to the client device.