Patent ID: 7502549

Claim:
A reproducing apparatus comprising: reproducing means for (1) reproducing from a recording medium (a) moving image data of a plurality of contents and (b) management information which is different from the moving image data and which indicates addresses of the recording medium where the moving image data of the plurality of contents are recorded and (2) writing the reproduced moving image data in a memory; displaying means for displaying a plurality of representative images of the plurality of contents on the same screen; selecting means for selecting a desired representative image from among the plurality of representative images displayed on the same screen; reproduction instruction means for instructing reproduction start of the contents independently of a selecting operation by the selecting means; reproduction processing means for reading out the moving image data stored in the memory and outputting the moving image data as reproduced moving image data; and controlling means for effecting control of the reproducing means and the reproduction processing means so that in response to the selecting operation by the selecting means when the plurality of representative images are displayed by the displaying means before the reproduction start instruction by the reproduction instructions means, the reproducing means reproduces a predetermined amount of the moving image data of the contents concerning the selected representative image to write the predetermined amount of the reproduced moving image data in the memory and the reproduction processing means does not effect reading out the written predetermined amount of the moving image data from the memory, the controlling means further controlling the reproduction processing means so that the reproduction processing means starts readout of the predetermined amount of the moving image data from the memory in response to the reproduction start instruction by the reproduction instruction means, wherein the moving image data includes a plurality of clips each showing series of moving images, and each of the plurality of contents includes the plurality of clips belonging to the same group.