CONTROL DEVICE, TRANSFER DEVICE, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND CONTENT ENCODING FORMAT DETERMINATION METHOD

摘要

Provided is a control device that determines encoding formats to be used by a recording device to record desired content on the storage device such that at least one of multiple reproduction devices can reproduce the content from the storage device. A monitoring unit of the control device monitors the use status of the storage device. An encoding format management unit manages information that indicates encoding formats decodable by the respective reproduction devices. A history management unit manages operation histories, such as reproduction of content from the storage device, of the respective reproduction devices. A determination unit selects, among the encoding formats decodable by the multiple reproduction devices, one or more encoding formats in descending order of likelihood of being used in transferring content from the storage device to any one of the reproduction devices on the basis of the use status of the storage device and the histories such that entire data obtained by encoding the desired content using the one or more encoding formats are recorded on the storage device.