Patent ID: 8849102

Claim:
A playback apparatus comprising: an input section that receives content data and accompanying data which is formed on the basis of a plurality of first items, the accompanying data being used for displaying information accompanying the content data; a first storage section that stores, among the plurality of first items forming the accompanying data received by the input section, a first item for which decoding time information concerning a decoding time is defined; a time information storage section that stores the decoding time information independently from the storage of the first item; a decoder that obtains the first item from the first storage section and decodes the first item in accordance with the decoding time information stored in the time information storage section; and a second storage section that stores the first item decoded by the decoder, wherein the time information storage section has at least a capacity to store a number of decoding time information entries, the capacity being based on an upper limit of the number of first items stored in the first storage section.