Embodiments of the present invention provide a video processing method, a mobile terminal, and a server. The method may include: sending, by a mobile terminal, a request to a server for pulling status update data of a social network, so that the server acquires original status update data that is requested to be pulled, the original status update data including a source video address; performing, by the server, adaptation processing on the source video address, to generate an adaptive video address; updating, by the server, the original status update data by using the adaptive video address, to obtain optimized status update data, and returning the optimized status update data to the mobile terminal; and obtaining, by the mobile terminal, adaptive video data according to the adaptive video address in the optimized status update data, and playing the adaptive video data.