摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To shorten a delay time from the time of instructing a transmitter to start reproduction to the time of displaying a video on a receiver, in accordance with the situation of the receiver and the using tendency of a user. <P>SOLUTION: In a video transmitter 1, a transcoder 16 transcodes an input video stream and records the video stream on a recording medium 14. A control unit 12 obtains, from a video receiver 3, bit rate information at the time of starting the reproduction and the number of times of occurrences of operation instruction from the user. The control unit 12 sets to the transcoder 16 a bit rate in the leading period of the video stream, in accordance with the obtained bit rate information or the number of times of occurrences of the operation instruction, and performs transcoding. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT |