Patent ID: 7542477

Claim:
An electronic apparatus comprising: a network connecting unit configured to make network connection with a client; a storage unit which stores compressed and encoded content; a transcoding unit configured to convert the content stored in the storage unit to content compressed and encoded in a different format for the client connected via the network connecting unit; a content transmitting unit configured to transmit the content stored in the storage unit or the content converted by the transcoding unit to the client connected via the network connecting unit; a setting unit configured to set a table in which information indicating whether or not to store the content after being converted has been recorded for combinations of: a) compression and encoding formats before converting, and b) compression and encoding formats after converting; a judging unit configured to judge whether or not to store the content converted by the transcoding unit based on the table set by the setting unit; and a control unit configured to store the content converted by the transcoding unit in the storage unit, when the judging unit judges that the content converted by the transcoding unit is to be stored in the storage unit.