1. An information processing apparatus comprising: area image extracting means for extracting, as a telop image, an area displaying a telop in contents; detecting means for detecting a scene change in images of the contents; recording means for converting an image at the time when a scene change 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; and playing means for playing the contents from the position corresponding to the selected thumbnail image or telop image.