Cloud computing based video service and playing methods

摘要

Cloud computing based video service and playing methods that enable a plurality of terminals to continuously view a video are provided. The video service method of a cloud computing server includes transmitting a requested video to a terminal in a streaming manner when the terminal requests play of the video, stopping the streaming transmission of the video and storing a stopped time point of the play in a user database when the terminal stops the play of the video, and transmitting the video beginning with a frame of the video at the stopped time point to the terminal or another terminal having requested play of the video in the streaming manner when the terminal or the other terminal requests the play of the video, in which the terminal or the other terminal having requested the play receives and plays the video beginning with the frame of the video at the stopped time point in a real-time manner.