A multiplexing apparatus which does not make a user who watches a moving
picture feel uncomfortable, the moving picture including: (i) a coding
unit (42) for generating one or more coded streams so that no gap occurs
at the connection of predetermined two access units in a process of
decoding, in sequence, the two access units in all of the access units
included in the coded streams; and (ii) a multiplexing unit (18) for
multiplexing, with other information, the coded streams generated in the
coding unit (42).