A method and apparatus of providing a combined summary by receiving monitored audio and video are provided The method includes: receiving audio and video captured by at least one network camera; generating a video summary by detecting at least one video event from at least one of the audio and the video; generating an audio summary by detecting at least one audio event from at least one of the audio and the video; extracting at least one section of the video summary corresponding to the at least one audio event, and storing the extracted at least one section of the video summary with the audio summary; and providing a display of the video reproducing apparatus with a video summary control interface for controlling the video summary and an audio summary control interface for controlling the audio summary.