Video file providing apparatus, video receiving/reproducing apparatus, internet broadcast system, and computer-readable recording medium

An Internet broadcast system includes a video file providing apparatus and a video receiving/reproducing apparatus that are connected via the Internet. The video file providing apparatus includes a video file storing unit for storing a video file consecutively storing a plurality of sets of sectional video data. The video receiving/reproducing apparatus stores a plurality of video reproduction tables specifying sets of sectional video data in an order of reproduction. A viewer designates one of the video reproduction tables. A video information processing unit in the video receiving/reproducing apparatus then generates a transfer instruction for each set of sectional video data specified in the designated video reproduction table, and transmits the generated transfer instruction to the video file providing apparatus via the Internet. On receiving the transfer instruction, the video file providing apparatus reads a set of sectional video data from the video file, and transmits the read set of sectional video data to the video receiving/reproducing apparatus. The video receiving/reproducing apparatus then outputs and reproduces each received set of sectional video data in the order of reproduction.