DATA SUPPLY APPARATUS, DATA SUPPLY METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR ALLOWING COMPUTER TO EXECUTE THE METHOD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a data supply apparatus for simply and surely supplying data to a data processing apparatus.

SOLUTION: A video server 10 acting like the data supply apparatus includes: a decoder 12 for executing similar decoding processing to that of a plurality of decoders 20 acting like data processing apparatuses; a supply section 14a for sequentially supplying encoded data stored in a storage section 11 to the decoders 20, 21 in a similar timing; a consumption monitoring section 14b for monitoring a progress state of the processing by the decoder 12 and discriminating whether or not the state is available for receiving and processing data sequentially supplied by the supply section 14a without missing; and a supply control section 14c for controlling the supply section 14a to stop supply of data when the consumption monitoring section 14b discriminates that the state is a processing impossible state and controlling the supply section 14a to continue or restart supply of data when the consumption monitoring section 14b discriminates that the state is a processing possible state.

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