Video playback method, apparatus, equipment, and the terminal server

The present invention discloses a method for video playback device, the terminal device and the server, the network belongs to the technical field. The method comprising: receiving a first video playback request; according to the video playback recording history and identity, get priority video source; sending a second video playback request to the server, so the server returns to the playback request according to the second video player address list; when receiving the list of addresses returned by the playback server according to the address list of the play, play the video identifies the corresponding video. The present invention based on the identification and video playback recording history, get priority video source can be when playing the record in the history of video playback, play the priority priority video source video, easy to operate, to avoid repeated switching video sources, Since then solve the resulting video source switching plot choppy video problem.