a reproducing apparatus includes : a reproducing portion for reproducing , from a recording medium , moving image data including plural frames whose information amount has been compressed by intraframe encoding ; a memory for storing the moving image data reproduced by the reproducing portion ; a decoding portion for reading out the frames of the moving image data stored in the memory and decoding the read - out data , the decoding portion reading out the moving image data in succession starting from an upper end of a screen for each frame to decode the read - out moving image data ; an instruction portion for instructing enlargement of the moving image data ; an enlarging area setting portion for setting , for each frame of the moving image data , a partial area on which enlarging processing is to be performed ; a control portion for controlling the decoding portion in accordance with the enlarging instruction , the control portion stopping reading out the one frame of moving image data from the memory , which is performed by the decoding portion , in case that moving image data of the partial area in the one frame of the moving image data is decoded ; and an output portion for modifying , in accordance with the number of pixels of the display device , the moving image data of the partial area decoded , and outputting the modified image data to the display device .