Patent ID: 8019202

Claim:
A content reproduction apparatus, comprising: a storage medium; a data acquisition section configured to acquire, from a data transmission apparatus, first streaming data that is used to play a content at a first speed; a recording section configured to record the first streaming data on the storage medium; a reproduction section configured to play the content at the first speed, based on the stored first streaming data; an acquisition control section configured to direct the data acquisition section to start acquiring second streaming data in response to a varied-speed reproduction request for the content, wherein the second streaming data is specialized data to play the content at a second speed associated with the varied-speed reproduction request; and a reproduction control section configured to: direct the reproduction section to play the content at a transition speed based on the stored first streaming data, in response to the varied-speed reproduction request, direct the reproduction section to play the content at the second speed based on the second streaming data, after acquisition of the second streaming data by the data acquisition section progresses to a reproduction preparation complete state, calculate a third speed when the varied-speed reproduction request is inputted, wherein the third speed allows the stored first streaming data to be played until a time at which the reproduction preparation complete state is expected to be reached, and use the third speed as the transition speed.