Patent ID: 7711011

Claim:
An apparatus for reproducing broadcast data in a digital multimedia broadcasting system for providing a digital multimedia broadcasting service, the apparatus comprising: a demultiplexer for demultiplexing a signal received from a transmitter and outputting video data; a time stamp adapter for changing a time stamp for indicating a play-out time of the video data such that the video data can be immediately output from a playback buffer without a Coder-Decoder (CODEC) delay, and outputting the video data having the changed time stamp; the playback buffer for buffering and outputting the video data output from the time stamp adapter according to the changed time stamp; a video decoder for decoding and outputting the video data output from the playback buffer according to the changed time stamp; and a display unit for reproducing the decoded video data, wherein, after changing the time stamp, the time stamp adapter lowers a frame rate below a frame rate used during occurrence of the CODEC delay to accumulate video data allowed in the playback buffer.