Moving picture processing apparatus

摘要

Disclosed herein is a A video data recording technique s capable of compressing/encoding video data in real time without deterioration in the playback image quality. Mixed video data into which a plurality of pieces of video data are time-divisionally combined is stored in a memory. According to the number of frames or fields of each video data, each video data is successively selected and read out from the memory and compressed/encoded based on the compress/encode information concerning a first compressing/encoding operation on the video data.