To provide a video reproducing device provided with a browsing function capable of freely reproducing a video and a charging function.
A large capacity storage medium M1 stores a main video vdt and a thumbnail image sdt received from a reception section C10, a high speed storage device C12 stores meta information mdt respectively. A semantic browser means C1 extracts a partial video from the main video on the basis of the meta information mdt to edit a preview video, displays a semantic graph and a current position on a screen on the basis of the meta information mdt and when a position designation is entered, the main video or the preview image is reproduced from the position. Furthermore, the semantic browser means C1 executes browsing between the main video and the preview image or browsing in the main video or in the preview image when a browsing instruction is entered. Moreover, a charging processing section C18 processes charging.
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