An apparatus is capable of playing back video content recorded on a DVD-Video disk without requiring the playing of a menu. A presentation sequence control unit of a non-video navigation manager extracts button commands for playing titles from a VMGM-PG for displaying a title menu defined for a DVD-Video disk. The presentation sequence control unit selects the extracted button commands in a predetermined order and requests a navigation control unit to play titles indicated by the button commands. The navigation control unit controls a presentation engine to reproduce audio data of the titles in accordance with VTS-PGCs for playing back titles and to provide the reproduced audio data through an audio output device.