Patent ID: 8472793

Claim:
A playback apparatus comprising: playback means for playing back a removable recording medium in which a moving image content stored in one file and another content other than the moving image content are stored, in which the moving image content has an MPEG4 format; storage controlling means for determining whether or not the moving image content having the MPEG4 format was being played back at a time in which the recording medium is stopped and removed, and for storing a file size of the recording medium, all file names and an absolute address corresponding to the moving image content and the other content in storing means only when a determination result indicates that the moving image content having the MPEG4 format was being played back when the recording medium was stopped and removed; determining means for determining, when the recording medium is loaded again and the moving image content is played back by the playback means, whether or not the recording medium is identical to the recording medium that was removed by reading the file size and all the file names stored in the storing means; and controlling means for resuming playback processing of the moving image content on the basis of the absolute address stored in the storing means when the determining means determines that the recording medium is identical to the recording medium that was removed.