An information processing apparatus (10) to display video data on a display apparatus includes a receiver (11) to receive the video data from one or more other information processing apparatuses via a network (2), a video data determiner (18) to determine the video data to be received by the receiver (11) according to a communications status, a static image data storage (19) to acquire static image data from the one or more other information processing apparatuses to store the acquired static image data, and a display processor (23) to generate a screen (500) having one or more areas to display the video data determined by the video data determiner (18) in the areas. The display processor (23) displays the static image data stored in the static image data storage (19) in the areas when a determined number of the video data is less than a number of the areas.
