METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PLAYING VIDEO, AND APPLICATION SERVER

摘要

Embodiments of the present application relate to the technical field of Internet. Disclosed are a method and apparatus for playing a video, and an application server. The method comprises: playing a video on a first web page in a first website according to an operation of a user; sending a query request to an application server, the query request carrying link information of the first web page; receiving a query response returned by the application server, the query response carrying a playlist of the video, and the playlist at least comprising the link information of the first web page and link information of the video on a second web page in a second website; and presenting the playlist to the user, so as to help the user to select a play source by using the playlist and to watch the video. When a video switchover is carried out by applying a solution provided by the embodiments of the present invention, a cross-website video switchover can be carried out on a current page by using playlist information of multiple websites without transferring to another video website to determine a to-be-switched video, so that the operation is simple and user experience is improved.