Patent ID: 8457474

Claim:
A reproduction apparatus comprising: a reading unit which reads from a recording medium a basic stream which has been obtained by encoding a first video stream of first and second video streams captured from two viewing points using H.264 AVC/MVC such that a group from an I picture to a picture immediately before a later I picture in a decoding order is regarded as a unit, prediction of a picture later than the I picture in a display order within the unit from a picture in a unit before the unit is suppressed, and SPS and PPS are included in a head Access Unit of the unit, an expanded stream which has been obtained by encoding the second video stream using H.264 AVC/MVC such that a group from an Anchor picture to a picture immediately before a later Anchor picture in the decoding order is regarded as a unit, prediction of a picture later than the Anchor picture in the display order within the unit from a picture in a unit before the unit is suppressed, and SPS and PPS are included in a head Access Unit of the unit, first table information in which a display time of the I picture is associated with a position on the basic stream, and second table information in which a display time of the Anchor picture is associated with a position on the expanded stream; and a decoding unit which decodes the basic stream, which has been read from the recording medium, from a predetermined I picture based on the first table information and decodes the expanded stream from an Anchor picture at the same display time as that of the predetermined I picture based on the second table information.