A recording apparatus for recording one or more pieces of content provided as stream data on a recording medium includes a bit-rate setting unit configured to variably set a bit rate when a processing unit part is recorded on the recording medium in accordance with content in the processing unit part within the one or more pieces of content for each processing unit part for which a recording process is performed on the recording medium within the stream data; and a recording controller configured to perform control so that the stream data is sequentially recorded on the recording medium for each processing unit part at each bit rate that is variably set for each processing unit part by the bit-rate setting unit.