Reproduction apparatus

A reproduction apparatus that enables seamless reproduction by which a user does not recognize the connecting point of scenes, when arbitrary scenes in an AV data stream are connected in an arbitrary order to be reproduced. According to this reproduction apparatus, in the seamless reproduction mode, the transfer of stream data into a decoder is performed by inserting a control stream following the termination of one scene (CELL#n) and then transferring the next scene (CELL#(n+1)). When a control stream is detected in the transferred stream data, and if the scene following the detected control stream (CELL#(n+1)) begins with a B picture, a decoder does not decode this B picture.