VIDEO CODER, CODING CONTROLLER, AND VIDEO CODING METHOD

A coding section encodes plural pieces of video data sequentially. A measuring section measures a time period which the coding section has used for coding video data. When the time period measured by the measuring section is judged to be longer than a predetermined time based on a frame rate of the video data, a control section selects at least one piece of video data to be coded after the video data coded by the coding section out of the plural pieces of video data and generates a predetermined bit stream instead of coded data of the thus selected video data without allowing the coding section to encode the selected data.