Patent ID: 8886012

Claim:
An information processing apparatus, comprising: a detecting circuit that detects feature information of a plurality of audio/video streams and counts a number of faces in each of the audio/video streams, detects a resolution of each of the audio/video streams, and sets a playlist resolution to be a resolution of the audio/video stream having a highest number of faces; a recording circuit that records the audio/video streams, clip information defining attributes including the detected feature information, and playback-segment data specifying at least one playback segment to a storage medium in accordance with a predetermined data-recording format, the playback-segment data obtained by setting a playback start point and a playback end point with respect to the audio/video streams; a playback-segment setting circuit that sets the playback segments with respect to the audio/video streams based on a detection time point of the feature information, the playback-segment data generating circuit only selecting playback segments having the playlist resolution; and a data generating circuit that generates a playlist including only the playback segments having the playlist resolution set by the playback-segment setting circuit.