PLAYBACK DEVICE, PLAYBACK METHOD, AND PROGRAM

摘要

The present technology relates to a reproduction device, a reproduction method, and a program, which are able to control the processing of H.264/MPEG-4 MVC encoded data in accordance with the value of a flag. A reproduction device of one aspect of the present technology is provided with: a setting unit which sets a value to a flag that indicates whether or not the reproduction device itself is a device that is capable of decoding H.264/MPEG-4 MVC encoded data; and a reproduction control unit which controls reproduction of H.264/MPEG-4 MVC encoded data in accordance with the value of the flag, and outputs, to a display device, images obtained by reproduction.