Method and terminal for video playing

The invention relates to the technical field of communication, in particular to a method and terminal for video playing. The purpose is to solve the problems that in the prior art, a video application program can not display a browser page and a player page at the same time, and when switching is performed between the player page and the browser page in the video application program, current page information is caused to be lost. In the embodiment, a needed video is selected through a browser page in a first video application program, and a second video application program is triggered to operate; the selected video is played through a player in the second video application program. Due to the fact that the corresponding browser page and the corresponding player page are displayed through the two video application programs respectively, a user can browse related information of the video while watching the video, and due to the fact that the browser page and the player page are arranged in the two application programs, when page switching is performed, the page information can not be caused to be lost.