1. An information processing apparatus comprising: area image extracting means for extracting, as a telop image, an area displaying a telop in video contents; detecting means for detecting a scene change in images of the video contents; recording means for converting an image at the time when a scene change in the video contents is detected by the detecting means to a thumbnail image and recording the thumbnail image; display control means for controlling to arrange and display a plurality of the thumbnail images and a plurality of the telop images chronologically, the display control means displaying a play start time and a play end time for each telop image next to a corresponding telop image; and playing means for playing the video contents from the position corresponding to the selected thumbnail image or telop image.