Reproduction apparatus and decoding control method

A reproduction apparatus which reproduces a stream including compression-encoded data, comprising:

• a request sending unit which sends a request instructing transfer of the stream to a server over a network;
• a receiving unit which receives the stream that is transferred from the server over the network;
• a buffer which stores the received stream;
• a decoder which executes a decoding process for reading out the received stream from the buffer and decoding the received stream;
• a clock generator which generates a clock signal which determines a speed of the decoding process;
• a determining unit configured to determine whether the received stream is a real-time stream, which is transmitted in real time from the server at a transmission rate corresponding to the received stream, or a non-real-time stream, which is stored in a storage medium of the server and can be transmitted from the server at a higher rate than the transmission rate corresponding to the received stream;
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• a clock control unit configured to execute a process for varying a frequency of the clock signal in accordance with a fill level of the buffer if the received stream is the real-time stream, and to execute a process for setting the frequency of the clock signal at a fixed value if the received stream is the non-real-time stream.