The invention discloses a video playing method and apparatus,
computer equipment, and a computer readable medium. The method includes steps: obtaining a screen refreshing rate of a terminal device; determining whether a film source
frame rate of a to-be-played film source is matched with the screen refreshing rate; if not,
processing the film source
frame rate of the to-be-played film source to generate a medium
stream whose the film source
frame rate and the screen refreshing rate are matched; and transmitting the medium
stream to the terminal device. According to the video method and apparatus, frame loss or frame
insertion operation is performed on the film source frame rate of the to-be-played film source in a streaming media platform, and the screen frame rate and the film source refreshing rate of the to-be-played film source are matched so that the frame rate of the output media data is reduced, the transmission
code rate is reduced, the
bandwidth requirement is reduced, each frame interval of the decoded medium
stream is large, the media stream is output and displayed, and the waste of bandwidth resources, decoding resources of set top boxes, and CPU resources due to frameloss is avoided.