Video data recording/reproducing apparatus and video data management method for use in the same

摘要

A video data recording/reproducing apparatus includes an input device, a data storage unit that stores the video data item input by the input device, a communication unit that executes communicates with an external unit via a network, a unit that moves one of a plurality of video data items stored in the data storage unit to the external unit, a unit that reproduces to-be-reproduced video data item from the data storage unit if the to-be-reproduced video data item is stored in the data storage unit, and a unit that executes a streaming process to reproduce a stream of the to-be-reproduced video data item that is transferred from the external unit while the stream of the to-be-reproduced video data item is being received by the communication unit, if the to-be-reproduced video data item is stored in the external unit.