US 12,413,819 B2
Video playback method and apparatus, computer device, and storage medium
Kongkang Zhu, Shenzhen (CN); Dafeng Luo, Shenzhen (CN); Yaochi Li, Shenzhen (CN); Xiaomeng Ma, Shenzhen (CN); Yiyang Li, Shenzhen (CN); and Lu Zhang, Shenzhen (CN)
Assigned to TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED, Shenzhen (CN)
Filed by Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited, Shenzhen (CN)
Filed on Oct. 11, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/963,863.
Application 17/963,863 is a continuation of application No. PCT/CN2021/108308, filed on Jul. 26, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 202010956362.3 (CN), filed on Sep. 11, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0045363 A1, Feb. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 21/472 (2011.01); H04N 21/431 (2011.01); H04N 21/482 (2011.01)
CPC H04N 21/47217 (2013.01) [H04N 21/4316 (2013.01); H04N 21/4825 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A video playback method, performed by a computing device, the method comprising:
displaying a video playback interface;
playing a current video on the video playback interface, wherein the current video is a first video clip, which is a first portion of a target video and the target video is a first episode of a series of video episodes;
in response to a video list display operation on the video playback interface:
displaying a video list on the video playback interface, the video list comprising (i) a second video clip, which is a second portion of the target video that is behind the first video clip by a predefined duration in the target video and (ii) a third video clip, which is a third portion of a second video episode subsequent the target video within the series of video episodes, the second video clip and the third video clips being arranged according to a chronological order of plot development in the target video and the video subsequent the target video among the series of video episodes, wherein the first video clip, the second video clip and the third video clip are respective highlights in the first video episode and the second video episode;
in accordance with a determination that a full version play mode has been activated and an end of the playback of the first video clip is reached:
playing the target video on the video playback interface starting from the end of the playback of the first video clip until an end of the target video;
switching from the full version play mode to a highlight play mode; and
starting playing the third video clip in the video list on the video playback interface at the end of playing the target video.