Video-recording/reproducing apparatus and video-recording/reproducing method

Abstract

A video-recording/reproducing apparatus and a video-recording/reproducing method making it possible to grasp the outline of a content in a frame using caption data are provided. A storage unit for storing content data containing video data and caption data correlated with each other by time information, a caption string acquisition unit for acquiring a caption string contained in the caption data, a time acquisition unit for acquiring time information corresponding to the caption string, a video acquisition unit for acquiring sequentially video information, from the video data, corresponding to the time information of the caption string acquired by the time acquisition unit, and a display control unit for displaying by thumbnails the video information acquired by the video acquisition unit in time series in a frame on a display unit are included.

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