Patent ID: 8224159

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: accessing means for accessing at least one of first video data and second video data from a disc-shaped recording medium, the second video data having been compression-encoded at a higher compression rate than the first video data; thumbnail image generating means for generating one or more thumbnail images of edit points based on the second video data, the edit points reproduced from random positions of the disc-shaped recording medium by the accessing means, wherein the edit points are start and stop points for reproducing video clip data; and accessing controlling means for controlling the accessing means so that in a first display mode the thumbnail images generated by the thumbnail image generating means are accessed and displayed on a display screen in a first order of which the second video data have been recorded on the disc-shaped recording medium and in a second display mode the thumbnail images are accessed in the first order of which the second video data have been recorded on the disc-shaped recording medium and are arranged on the display screen in a second order different from the first order, wherein the second order based upon a recorded list in which edit results of the edit points are to be reproduced.