Patent ID: 7831132

Claim:
An information processing apparatus comprising: checking means for checking predetermined time information of content data recorded in a first format by controlling a content providing device to reproduce at a faster speed than a normal speed of the content providing device; setting means for setting, on the basis of said content data time information checked by said checking means, bit rates with which said content data is recorded from said information processing apparatus to a predetermined removable recording medium, the setting means selecting the bit rates such that an amount of data to be stored on the predetermined removable recording medium is less than a capacity of a predetermined removable recording medium based on a comparison between a resulting amount of data for selected bit rates and the capacity of a predetermined removable recording medium, said content data including moving image data and audio data corresponding thereto, and said setting means reduces the audio data bit rate from an original audio data bit rate to a reduced audio data bit rate without reducing the moving image bit rate if a resulting original amount of data for original audio and moving image bit rates exceeds the capacity of the predetermined removable recording medium; and recording control means for converting the format of said content data from said first format to a second format and recording the converted content data to said recording medium with said bit rates set by said setting means.