INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTENT REQUESTING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM.

摘要

[Problem] To provide an information processing apparatus the maintenance of which can be performed with the bloating of meta information being avoided when a device is controlled remotely from a client by use of ABS technique. [Solution] Provided is an information processing apparatus comprising: a storage unit that stores predetermined definitions used for adding parameters to respective pieces of access information, which are used for accessing the respective ones of a plurality of subsegments constituting encoded data obtained by encoding the same content by use of different bit rates or which are used for accessing any respective elements described in MPD and obtained by making requests to a server; and a communication unit that designates a parameter on the basis of a predetermined definition stored by the storage unit, thereby accessing an address defined by the access information, the address defined by the access information being an address used for controlling an apparatus that picks up the images of the content.