Provided are a reception apparatus, a transmission apparatus, a control method, a transmission method, and a program that can control a frame image size of each frame image so that the frame image constituting a moving image is transmitted at an appropriate timing. A frame-image reception section receives a first frame image constituting the moving image. A control-data update section performs control so that the frame image size of a second frame image constituting the moving image, which is received after the first frame image, corresponds to a time required to receive the first frame image.