CN116781971A

CN116781971A - Video playing method and device

Info

Publication number: CN116781971A
Application number: CN202210225472.1A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 林婧
Original assignee: Tencent Technology Shenzhen Co Ltd
Current assignee: Tencent Technology Shenzhen Co Ltd
Priority date: 2022-03-09
Filing date: 2022-03-09
Publication date: 2023-09-19

Abstract

The application discloses a video playing method and device, and relates to the technical field of multimedia. The method comprises the following steps: displaying a first character control; responsive to receiving a triggering operation on a first character control, playing the first video clip associated with a first character; responding to the second role appearing in the playing picture of the first video clip, and displaying a second role control corresponding to the second role, wherein a role association relationship exists between the second role and the first role; and in response to receiving the triggering operation of the second character control, playing at least one second video clip associated with the second character. The method and the system are convenient for users to quickly understand the role relation among the roles in the target video, and improve the efficiency of understanding the scenario of the target video. The method provided by the application is suitable for a plurality of fields such as intelligent transportation, multimedia application, cloud application and the like.

Description

Video playing method and device

Technical Field

The embodiment of the application relates to the technical field of multimedia, in particular to a video playing method and device.

Background

Video applications are typically provided with a variety of functions to facilitate efficient viewing of video, such as: a double-speed play function, a head-and-tail skip function, a designated character viewing function, and the like.

In the related art, after the designated character viewing function is turned on, only the clip of the designated character in the video is played, for example: when watching the video A, selecting to watch the role b in the video A independently, and only playing the video clip corresponding to the role b in the playing process of the video A.

However, in the designated role viewing function, the problem of dislocation of the video content related to the viewed roles and other roles in the video is easily caused, so that the user cannot understand the relationship between the roles in the movie work in time, multiple plays are required for confirmation, the man-machine interaction efficiency is low, and the data interaction amount between the server and the terminal is large.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the application provides a video playing method, a device, equipment, a storage medium and a program product, which can improve the efficiency of understanding video clip story lines to a certain extent. The technical scheme is as follows.

In one aspect, a video playing method is provided, and the method includes:

displaying a first character control, wherein the first character control is used for playing a first video segment associated with a first character in a target video;

responsive to receiving a trigger operation for the first character control, playing the first video clip associated with the first character;

Responding to the occurrence of a second role in a playing picture of the first video segment, displaying a second role control corresponding to the second role, wherein a role association relationship exists between the second role and the first role, and the second role control is used for playing the second video segment associated with the second role in the target video;

and in response to receiving the triggering operation of the second role control, playing at least one second video clip associated with the second role.

In another aspect, there is provided a video playing device, the device comprising:

the display module is used for displaying a first character control, and the first character control is used for playing a first video clip which is associated with a first character in the target video;

the playing module is used for responding to the received triggering operation of the first character control and playing the first video clip associated with the first character;

the display module is further configured to display a second role control corresponding to a second role in response to occurrence of the second role in a play picture of the first video segment, where a role association relationship exists between the second role and the first role, and the second role control is used to play the second video segment associated with the second role in the target video;

And the playing module is also used for responding to the received triggering operation of the second role control and playing at least one second video clip associated with the second role.

In another aspect, a computer device is provided, where the computer device includes a processor and a memory, where the memory stores at least one instruction, at least one program, a set of codes, or a set of instructions, where the at least one instruction, the at least one program, the set of codes, or the set of instructions are loaded and executed by the processor to implement a video playing method according to any one of the embodiments of the present application.

In another aspect, a computer readable storage medium is provided, where at least one instruction, at least one program, a set of codes, or a set of instructions is stored, where the at least one instruction, the at least one program, the set of codes, or the set of instructions are loaded and executed by a processor to implement a video playing method according to any one of the embodiments of the present application.

In another aspect, a computer program product or computer program is provided, the computer program product or computer program comprising computer instructions stored in a computer readable storage medium. The processor of the computer device reads the computer instructions from the computer-readable storage medium, and the processor executes the computer instructions to cause the computer device to perform the video playback method according to any one of the above embodiments.

The technical scheme provided by the embodiment of the application has the beneficial effects that at least:

when a first video clip corresponding to a first character is watched, an entry control for jumping to play the second video clip corresponding to the second character is provided in a play picture by identifying the second character in the first video clip, so that a user can understand the character relation among the characters in a target video quickly, and the efficiency of understanding the scenario of the target video by the user is improved; in addition, other content associated with the target video can be further expanded by automatically analyzing the role relationships between roles.

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In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application, the drawings required for the description of the embodiments will be briefly described below, and it is apparent that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present application, and other drawings may be obtained according to these drawings without inventive effort for a person skilled in the art.

FIG. 1 is an interface schematic diagram of a character relationship graph provided in an exemplary embodiment of the application;

FIG. 2 is a schematic illustration of an implementation environment provided by an exemplary embodiment of the present application;

Fig. 3 is a flowchart of a video playing method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present application;

fig. 4 is an interface schematic diagram corresponding to a video playing method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present application;

fig. 5 is a flowchart of a video playing method according to another exemplary embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of an interface for displaying a first character control provided based on the embodiment shown in FIG. 5;

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of an interface for displaying a first character control provided based on another exemplary embodiment shown in FIG. 5;

FIG. 8 is a schematic illustration of an interface display provided based on another exemplary embodiment shown in FIG. 5;

fig. 9 is a flowchart of a video playing method according to another exemplary embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 10 is an interface diagram of a return control displayed at an interface provided based on one exemplary embodiment shown in FIG. 9;

fig. 11 is a flowchart of a video playing method according to another exemplary embodiment of the present application;

fig. 12 is a block diagram of a video playback apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present application;

fig. 13 is a block diagram illustrating a video playback apparatus according to another exemplary embodiment of the present application;

fig. 14 is a block diagram of a server according to an exemplary embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

For the purpose of making the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present application more apparent, the embodiments of the present application will be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

First, a brief description will be given of terms involved in the embodiments of the present application and applied technologies.

Target video: the target video is used for indicating video clips to be played, the target video comprises but is not limited to at least one of short video, movie and drama works and documentaries, the target video comprises at least two roles, each role corresponds to a story line of the target video, and a role association relationship exists between each role, wherein multiple relationships possibly exist between the roles; in the embodiment of the application, the role relations among important roles in the target video are subjected to depth analysis, and an entry control for switching video clips is provided based on the determined role relations.

Role relationship graph: the method is used for indicating the role relation among the roles in the target video, as shown in fig. 1, a role relation map 100 corresponding to the target video is displayed in a terminal interface, the role relation map 100 comprises roles 101 to 104, and the role relation map 100 also displays the association relation among the roles, and can be seen from the line segment with an arrow shown in fig. 1; optionally, the character relationship map 100 displays character information corresponding to each character, where the character information includes, but is not limited to, a name of the character decorated by the character in the target video, identity information of the character in the target video, dubbing character information corresponding to the character, and character information decorated by the character; for specific details of how to draw the character relationship graph, see the following description, which is not described here.

Story line development sequence: in the embodiment of the application, the video segments associated with the trigger role control play roles can be arranged and aggregated according to the development sequence of the story lines, that is, a video segment list corresponding to the roles is displayed in a play interface, the video segment list is sequentially arranged according to the development sequence of the story lines, and introduction contents corresponding to the video segments exist and can be used for indicating the summary of events corresponding to the video segments, for example: the character a corresponds to the video clip 1, the video clip 2 and the video clip 3, a video clip list is displayed on the interface of the video clip corresponding to the playing character a, and the list comprises titles corresponding to each video clip, names of other newly appeared characters and the like, and the title of the video clip 1 is as follows: role a gets key clues; alternatively, a new character b appears in the video clip 1, and the introduction is displayed on the circumference side of the title of the video clip 1: character b appears, etc.

Artificial intelligence (Artificial Intelligence, AI for short): the system is a theory, a method, a technology and an application system which simulate, extend and extend human intelligence by using a digital computer or a machine controlled by the digital computer, sense environment, acquire knowledge and acquire an optimal result by using the knowledge. In other words, artificial intelligence is an integrated technology of computer science that attempts to understand the essence of intelligence and to produce a new intelligent machine that can react in a similar way to human intelligence. Artificial intelligence, i.e. research on design principles and implementation methods of various intelligent machines, enables the machines to have functions of sensing, reasoning and decision.

The artificial intelligence technology is a comprehensive subject, and relates to the technology with wide fields, namely the technology with a hardware level and the technology with a software level. Artificial intelligence infrastructure technologies generally include technologies such as sensors, dedicated artificial intelligence chips, cloud computing, distributed storage, big data processing technologies, operation/interaction systems, mechatronics, and the like. The artificial intelligence software technology mainly comprises a computer vision technology, a voice processing technology, a natural language processing technology, machine learning/deep learning and other directions.

Computer Vision technology (CV): computer vision is a science of how to "look" a machine. As a scientific discipline, computer vision research-related theory and technology has attempted to build artificial intelligence systems that can acquire information from images or multidimensional data. Computer vision techniques typically include image processing, image recognition, image semantic understanding, image retrieval, OCR, video processing, video semantic understanding, video content/behavior recognition, three-dimensional object reconstruction, 3D techniques, virtual reality, augmented reality, synchronous positioning, and map construction, among others, as well as common biometric recognition techniques such as face recognition, fingerprint recognition, and others.

With research and advancement of artificial intelligence technology, research and application of artificial intelligence technology is being developed in various fields, such as common smart home, smart wearable devices, virtual assistants, smart speakers, smart marketing, unmanned, automatic driving, unmanned aerial vehicles, robots, smart medical treatment, smart customer service, etc., and it is believed that with the development of technology, artificial intelligence technology will be applied in more fields and with increasing importance value.

Secondly, the description is performed on the application scene related to the embodiment of the application by combining the noun description:

first, apply to video viewing scenes;

when a user watches a target video in a terminal through a browser or a player, acquiring a role relation map corresponding to the target video, wherein the target video can be at least one of a short video which is independently created, a short video which is obtained through secondary editing, a movie episode and a documentary; optionally, displaying a role relationship map on a video content introduction page or an interface for playing a target video, wherein the role relationship map comprises head images and role description information corresponding to each role;

in the embodiment of the application, the head portraits corresponding to each role displayed in the role relation graph are used for playing video segments with preset relation, when the clicking operation of the head portraits corresponding to the first role in the role relation graph is received, the terminal acquires and aggregates at least one first video segment corresponding to the role, the aggregated at least one first video segment is displayed in a current display interface, a user selects the first video segment from the at least one first video segment for playing, when other roles appear in a playing picture of the first video segment, a current picture frame is extracted for role recognition, the role relation between a newly appearing second role and the first role is determined, and a second role control corresponding to the second role is displayed in the current interface based on the determined role relation, the user realizes the effect of quickly switching from the first video segment corresponding to the second role to the second video segment corresponding to the second role by clicking the second role control, automatically cards the role relation and the story segments (the first video segment and the second video segment) corresponding to the roles among the roles in the target video, the user is helped to quickly understand the target video, and the user is further improved in the target video line watching efficiency. The role relation map may be obtained after analysis of the target video, or may be preset.

Secondly, the method is applied to game analysis scenes;

in some games, a plurality of virtual roles exist, a preset role association relationship exists among the virtual roles, when a user controls a master virtual role to play a game in the game application process, role association information between the newly-appearing virtual role and the master virtual role is determined through related information displayed in the game, and along with the time of the game, the user can not clearly memorize the role association relationship between each virtual role and the master virtual role, so that the user is required to review the history game process again, and the efficiency of the user for understanding the game story line is reduced;

in the embodiment of the application, when the virtual object newly appears in the game process, the terminal stores the role association relation between the virtual object newly appearing and the main control virtual object, and displays the head portrait entry control of the virtual object newly appearing in the current interface, wherein the head portrait entry control is used for displaying the role description content between the virtual object newly appearing and the main control virtual object, thereby effectively improving the efficiency of understanding the game story line for the user and improving the man-machine interaction efficiency.

In the embodiment of the application, the video playing method provided by the embodiment can also be applied to the field of artificial intelligence for automatic analysis, and the application is not limited.

The foregoing is merely an exemplary example, and the video playing method provided in the embodiment of the present application may also be applied to other application scenarios, which is not limited in this disclosure.

Finally, the implementation environment of the embodiment of the application is described by combining the noun description and the application scene.

Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of an implementation environment provided by an embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 2, where the implementation environment includes a terminal 210 and a server 220, where the terminal 210 and the server 220 are connected through a communication network 230, and the communication network 230 may be a wireless network or a wired network, which is not limited in this application.

Optionally, the user searches the target video in a designated application program in the terminal 210, and displays a video content introduction page corresponding to the target video in the current interface, where the designated application program includes, but is not limited to, a browser, a player, and image recognition software, a role relation graph corresponding to the target video is displayed in the video content introduction page, and role controls of roles corresponding to the target video are displayed in the role relation graph;

the user clicks the first character control in the character relation graph, the terminal 210 sends a play request to the server 220, and the server 220 aggregates at least one first video segment corresponding to the first character in the target video according to the play request and feeds the aggregated at least one first video segment back to the terminal 210.

The terminal 210 displays at least one first video clip corresponding to the first character in the current interface according to the feedback information and plays the at least one first video clip according to the playing time sequence of the target video.

Optionally, when a second character appears in the playing screen of the first video clip, and there is a character association relationship between the second character and the first character, a second character control is displayed in the playing interface of the terminal 210.

In response to receiving the triggering operation (triggering the video switching request) on the second character control, the terminal 210 sends the video switching request to the server 220, and the server 220 obtains at least one second video segment corresponding to the second character in the target video according to the video switching request and feeds back the at least one second video segment to the terminal 210.

Optionally, the terminal 210 automatically plays at least one second video clip, and a return control is further displayed in a play frame for playing the second video clip, where the return control is used to switch the currently played second video clip to play the first video clip.

It should be noted that, the above-mentioned terminal 210 may be implemented as a mobile terminal such as a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a vehicle-mounted terminal, an intelligent home device, a wearable device, a portable laptop computer, or a desktop computer, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

The server 220 may be an independent physical server, a server cluster or a distributed system formed by a plurality of physical servers, or a cloud server providing cloud services, cloud databases, cloud computing, cloud functions, cloud storage, network services, cloud communication, middleware services, domain name services, security services, content delivery networks (Content Delivery Network, CDN), basic cloud computing services such as big data and artificial intelligence platforms.

Cloud technology (Cloud technology) refers to a hosting technology that unifies serial resources such as hardware, software, networks and the like in a wide area network or a local area network to realize calculation, storage, processing and sharing of data. The cloud technology is based on the general names of network technology, information technology, integration technology, management platform technology, application technology and the like applied by the cloud computing business mode, can form a resource pool, and is flexible and convenient as required. Cloud computing technology will become an important support. Background services of technical networking systems require a large amount of computing, storage resources, such as video websites, picture-like websites, and more portals. Along with the high development and application of the internet industry, each article possibly has an own identification mark in the future, the identification mark needs to be transmitted to a background system for logic processing, data with different levels can be processed separately, and various industry data needs strong system rear shield support and can be realized only through cloud computing.

In some embodiments, the server 220 described above may also be implemented as a node in a blockchain system.

The above-mentioned implementation environments are only exemplary, and the video playing method provided in the embodiment of the present application may be applied to the terminal 210 alone or to the server 220 alone, which is not limited in this regard, but in the embodiment of the present application, the video playing method is applied to the combined implementation environment of the server 220 and the terminal 210.

In connection with the above-mentioned implementation environment, a video playing method according to an embodiment of the present application is described, and fig. 3 is a flowchart of a video playing method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present application, where the method is applied to a terminal for description, and in an embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 3, the method includes:

step 301, a first character control is displayed.

In the embodiment of the present application, a user searches a target video by using a designated application program, a role relationship map corresponding to each role in the target video is displayed in a video content introduction interface of the target video, and role controls corresponding to each role in the target video and relationship description contents between each role are displayed in the role relationship map, where the designated application program may be a browser application program, a video playing application program, a live broadcast application program, a cloud disk storage application program, etc., and the relevant contents are described in step 501 and fig. 6, which are not described in detail herein.

In other embodiments, the user selects the target video to watch, a role relation graph is displayed in a playing interface of the target video, role controls corresponding to a plurality of roles are displayed in the role relation graph, or role controls corresponding to each role are directly displayed in the playing interface of the target video, where the target video includes but is not limited to at least one of a short video, a movie episode, and a documentary.

In an optional embodiment, the role relationship map is used for indicating the relationship between the roles in the target video, and may also be used for indicating the relationship between the roles in the core of the target video, where the role relationship map also displays the role names, the role identities and the direct association relationship between the roles corresponding to the roles, which is not limited in this application.

The character relation map comprises character controls corresponding to each character, wherein the first character control is used for indicating character information of the character in a target video, including but not limited to character information for personating the character, name of the character decorated in the target video, identity of the character decorated in the target video and character information dubbing the character screen.

In another optional embodiment, in an associated interface for displaying the target video, a role control list corresponding to a role included in the target video is displayed, where the role control list includes a first role control.

In the embodiment of the present application, the scene of displaying the first character control includes, but is not limited to, the following ways:

first, a first character control is displayed in a content introduction interface for displaying a target video, wherein the first character control is used for playing a first video segment associated with a first character in the target video, the content introduction interface is used for indicating an interface for introducing the target video, the interface comprises a content introduction of the target video, an image corresponding to the target video and character relation maps corresponding to each character in the target video, the character relation maps are displayed with character controls corresponding to each character, and the interface comprises the first character control corresponding to the first character.

And secondly, displaying the first character control in a playing interface for playing the target video, and optionally, displaying the character control corresponding to each character in a superposition manner in a playing picture of the target video, wherein the step of displaying the first character control comprises the steps of.

Thirdly, displaying the function control in a playing interface for playing the target video, and when a triggering operation on the function control is received, superposing and displaying a role control list on the playing interface, wherein the role control list comprises a first role control.

It should be noted that the display manner of the first character control is merely an illustrative example, which is not limited in this embodiment.

In the embodiment of the application, the first character control can be understood as a shortcut entry for playing the video clip associated with the first character.

In step 302, in response to receiving a triggering operation on the first character control, a first video clip associated with the first character is played.

Optionally, in response to receiving a triggering operation on the first character control, the triggering operation includes, but is not limited to, a clicking operation, a long-press operation, a dragging operation, a triggering operation input through an external device, and a voice control operation, and a first video clip associated with the first character is acquired. The association relationship is used for indicating the relationship between the video clip and the first character, and the association relationship can be that the video clip contains the first character, that is, the first video clip is the video clip in which the first character appears; the first video clip can also be a forensic cue clip for leading out the first character, namely, the first video clip plays a guiding role on the appearance of the first character; it is also possible that other roles and the first role have video clips with common events, i.e. the first role does not appear in the first video clip, but the other roles that appear perform the same events as the first role. In this embodiment, the video clips associated with the roles may also be referred to as video clips corresponding to the roles.

In the embodiment of the present application, the manner of obtaining the first video clip includes, but is not limited to:

firstly, responding to the received triggering operation of a first character control, and sending a video acquisition request to a server, wherein the video acquisition request comprises related information of a first character, a character relation map corresponding to a target video, the target video and the like; the server acquires first video clips (the number of the first video clips is greater than or equal to 1) containing a first role in the target video according to the received video acquisition request, compresses, packages and feeds the first video clips back to the terminal, and the terminal sequentially plays the first video clips associated with the first role in a terminal interface according to the feedback of the server.

Second, the terminal stores video clips associated with each role in the target video in advance, when the terminal receives triggering operation of the first role control, the terminal directly acquires the first video clip associated with the first role from the local according to the association relation among the first role control, the target video and the first role, and plays the first video clip.

Third, the video segments associated with each role in the target video are stored in the server in advance, when the terminal receives the triggering operation of the first role control, the terminal sends a video acquisition request to the server, directly acquires the first video segments associated with the first role from the server, feeds back the first video segments to the terminal, and plays the first video segments.

Fourth, the cloud storage system stores video segments associated with each role in the target video, see table 1 below, table 1 shows a storage relationship among the target video, the roles and the video segments stored in the cloud storage system, the video a includes a role a and a role b, the role a includes a video segment 1, the role b includes a video segment 2, when a user views the video a, after triggering a role control of the role a, the video segment 1 corresponding to the role a is directly acquired from the cloud storage system, the video segment 1 is fed back to the terminal, and the video segment 1 is played, and optionally, the video segments 1 to 7 may be implemented as a set of video sub-segments, such as: video clip 1 may be implemented as a collection of video sub-clips corresponding to multiple roles a, or roles a may correspond to 1 or more video clips.

Table 1:

optionally, the cloud storage system further stores role relations among all roles in the target video, and draws role relation graphs corresponding to all roles in the target video based on the role relations among all roles.

And step 303, responding to the second role appearing in the playing picture of the first video clip, and displaying a second role control corresponding to the second role.

Optionally, the first character corresponds to at least one first video clip, and the at least one first video clip is played in sequence; and in the process of playing at least one video clip, the terminal performs role identification on the current frame of the first video clip to obtain candidate roles appearing in the playing picture of the first video clip.

Optionally, a role relationship graph corresponding to the target video is obtained, where the role relationship graph is used to indicate an association relationship between roles appearing in the target video, and the following detailed description is given to a generation process of the role relationship graph, and specifically includes the following steps:

acquiring image text data related to a target video, and determining whether a candidate person corresponding to candidate person information appears in the target video based on the image text data, wherein the image text data is used for describing association relations among roles in the target video, and the image text data comprises at least one image data, at least one text data and at least one audio/video data, wherein the image data can be a scenario, a post-scene flower, a propaganda poster and the like of the candidate person playing the target video; the text data may be text content that analyzes the target video storyline and/or scenario, text content that recommends the target video, character analysis text content corresponding to each character within the target video, analysis content that decorates character objects of characters within the target video, etc., for example: an article recommending "abc", an article deeply analyzing the relationship between "abc" characters, an article analyzing the story line of "abc" inner xx characters, and the like; the audio-video data is used for indicating and analyzing the scenario and/or story line of the target video, each character in the target video, and the character object corresponding to the character of the target video, and can be presented in the form of MP3 or MP4 or presented by using other audio-video formats, which is not limited in the application.

Optionally, extracting a role entity word corresponding to each role in the target video from the image text data, and generating a role relation map corresponding to the target video based on the association relation between each role described in the image text data; in the embodiment of the present application, the image text data carries the target video, each character in the target video, and the label corresponding to the candidate character, and the image text data with the same/overlapping labels are associated with each other, referring specifically to fig. 4, when the first video segment a corresponding to the first character 101 is played, when the second character 102 appears in the playing frame, the terminal performs face recognition on the current frame to obtain the candidate character "li" of the candidate character 102, obtains the image text data carrying the label of the candidate character "li" and the label corresponding to the target video, determines that the candidate character "li" is the character playing the second character 102 based on the image text data, and it should be noted that, in fig. 4, the candidate character 102 is the object playing the second character 102, so the reference numeral 102 may refer to the candidate character or the second character.

Optionally, a second character appearing in the playing picture of the first video clip is determined based on the candidate character and the character relation map, and in the embodiment of the application, a character association relation exists between the second character and the first character.

In an alternative embodiment, the second role determination includes, but is not limited to, the following:

firstly, intercepting a screenshot picture corresponding to a candidate role in response to the candidate role appearing in a first video segment; acquiring image data corresponding to a target video; comparing the screenshot picture with the image data of the target video object to determine whether the screenshot picture appears in the image data corresponding to the target video; and if the candidate character exists, determining the candidate character as a second character according to the character relation image.

Secondly, responding to the occurrence of the candidate role in the first video segment, carrying out face recognition on the current frame of the first video segment, and determining a person object corresponding to the candidate role, wherein the person object comprises an object name corresponding to the candidate role; determining whether the character object plays the target video, in other words, determining whether the character object corresponding to the candidate character belongs to the character in the target video; if it is determined that the character object is playing the target video, the candidate character is determined to be the second character.

In the embodiment of the present application, the manner of determining at least one second video clip corresponding to the second role includes, but is not limited to, the following manners:

First, identifying a first candidate video segment with an association relationship with a second role from a preset video library, wherein the association relationship is used for indicating the relationship between the candidate video segment and the second role, and the association relationship can be that the second role is contained in the video segment, namely, the second video segment is a video segment in which the second role appears; the first video segment can also be a forensic cue segment for leading out the second character, namely, the second video segment plays a guiding role on the appearance of the second character; the video clips in which other roles and the second role have common events can also be used, namely, the second role does not appear in the second video clip, but the other roles appearing execute the same events with the second role; matching the first candidate video segment with the target video to obtain at least one second video segment corresponding to the target video; the specific process of video matching comprises the following steps: comparing and de-duplicating the first candidate video segment with the target video, and determining a segment overlapped with the first candidate video segment from the target video as at least one second video segment; all videos contained in the preset video library correspondingly carry own labels, the labels can comprise, but are not limited to, labels of target videos, labels corresponding to all roles in the target videos, labels derived from all roles of the target videos, labels corresponding to person objects playing the target videos and the like, a terminal extracts first candidate video fragments containing the labels in the preset video library, compares the first candidate video fragments with the target videos, and performs duplicate removal processing to determine at least one second video fragment associated with a second role.

And secondly, the terminal locally stores video clips related to each role in the target video in advance, and when a second role appears in a playing picture of the first video clip, the terminal directly obtains the second video clip related to the second role from the local.

Thirdly, packing and storing video clips related to each role in the target video in a remote storage system, updating the video clips related to each role in the target video stored in the remote storage system in real time by a server according to label information in the uploaded video, and sending a request for acquiring at least one second video clip corresponding to the second role to the server by the terminal when the second role appears in a playing picture of the terminal, and acquiring the at least one second video clip related to the second role in the target video from the remote storage system by the server according to the request.

Optionally, after determining at least one second video segment associated with the second character, displaying a second character control in a playing picture of the first video segment, where the second character control is used to play the second video segment associated with the second character in the target video.

In the embodiment of the application, the second video clip can be used for indicating the video clip containing the second character, can also be used for indicating the pro-file prompt clip leading out the second character, and can also be used for indicating the video clip with common stories (events) of other characters and the second character, namely, the second character does not necessarily appear in the second video clip at this time.

Step 304, in response to receiving the triggering operation of the second character control, playing at least one second video clip associated with the second character.

Optionally, the second character control may be understood as a shortcut entry for quickly switching from playing the video clip associated with the first character to playing the video clip associated with the second character, and a character association relationship exists between the second character and the first character.

Optionally, in response to receiving a triggering operation on the second character control, where the triggering operation includes, but is not limited to, a clicking operation, a long-press operation, a dragging operation, a triggering operation input through an external device, a voice control operation, and the like, at least one second video clip associated with the second character is acquired and automatically played. Referring specifically to fig. 4, fig. 4 is an interface schematic diagram of a video playing method according to an embodiment of the present application.

As shown in fig. 4, content introduction information corresponding to the target video is displayed in the terminal interface 10, where the content introduction information includes, but is not limited to, introduction content of the target video, a propaganda poster corresponding to the target video, a control for playing the target video, a role relationship map corresponding to the target video, and the like. In the embodiment of the application, the identity information (character name and/or character identity) corresponding to each character in the target video and the character association relation (line segment with arrow in fig. 4) between each character are displayed in the character relation map, and optionally, the character association description content between the characters can be displayed at the line segment with arrow, so that the character association description content is convenient for understanding the character relation between each character in the target video; a role head control corresponding to a core role of a target video is displayed in a role relation map, wherein the core role is used for indicating important roles for promoting the development of a target video story line, and 4 core roles are included in the target video shown in fig. 4; in response to receiving a triggering operation on the first character control 401, switching the currently displayed interface 40 to a video playing interface 41 for playing a first video clip corresponding to the first character 401, wherein at least one first video clip (first video clips a to c) arranged according to a preset sequence is displayed in the playing interface 41, and highlighting the description content corresponding to the first video clip a being played; when a second role appears in the playing interface 42 of the first video segment a 402, the terminal determines that the second role 102 is a role having a role association relationship with the first role 401, and displays a second role control 103 in a superposition manner in the playing interface of the first video segment, wherein role description information of the second role 402 and an entry control for watching a video segment corresponding to the second role are displayed in the second role control 403; in response to receiving the triggering operation of the second character control 403, switching the first video segment a corresponding to the first character 401 played on the current interface 42 to the playing interface 43 for playing the second video segment b corresponding to the second character 402, where at least one second video segment (second video segments a to c) arranged according to a preset sequence is displayed on the playing interface 43, and highlighting the description content corresponding to the second video segment b being played, where the first video segment a and the second video segment b may be the same video segment or different video segments, and the application is not limited thereto; when the first video clip a and the second video clip b are the same video clip, in the video playing process, the picture corresponding to the time stamp of ending playing the first video clip a is the same as the picture corresponding to the time stamp of starting playing the second video clip b.

In an optional embodiment, the second video segment is continuously played according to the playing content corresponding to the playing progress of the first video segment, where the playing progress is used to indicate the playing content indicated by the corresponding timestamp when the first video segment is switched, that is, the playing progress may be understood as the playing progress of the first video segment corresponding to the playing progress in the target video, for example, when the first video segment is played to a certain time (designated timestamp), the second role control displayed in the playing interface is triggered, the playing progress of the first video segment corresponding to the designated timestamp corresponding to the target video is obtained, the playing start timestamp of the second video segment is determined according to the designated timestamp, and the second video segment is played from the start timestamp. Optionally, the second video clip is continuously played from a timestamp corresponding to a preset time period before the playing progress of the first video clip, or the second video clip is continuously played from a timestamp corresponding to a preset time period after the playing progress, or the second video clip is continuously played from a timestamp corresponding to the playing progress, for example, the playing progress of the first video clip in the target video is 12:00, and after the second video clip is switched, the starting playing time (here, the starting playing time is the playing time in the target video) of the second video clip may be continuously played from a timestamp corresponding to 11:55, or may be directly continuously played from a timestamp corresponding to 12:00, or may be continuously played from a timestamp corresponding to 12:05, where the preset time period is 5 seconds, and the preset time may also be set according to the actual requirement, which is only an exemplary example.

In an alternative embodiment, in response to receiving a trigger operation of the second character control, displaying a first story line list corresponding to the second character, where the first story line list includes at least one first story node associated with the second character, where an i-th first story node corresponds to an i-th second video segment, and i is a positive integer; in the embodiment of the present application, at least one first story node is displayed in a first story context list according to a story line development sequence of a target video, at least one first story node is correspondingly displayed with node introduction content, the node introduction content is used for summarizing content of a second video segment corresponding to the first story node, for example, title information corresponding to the second video segment is displayed at the first story node, for example, after triggering a second role control, the first story context list is displayed on an interface (video 1:xx encounters xx, video 2:xx successfully obtains clues, video 3:xx and xx generate misunderstandings), wherein three story nodes respectively correspond to video 1, video 2 and video 3 in the first story context list, and the corresponding node introduction content is displayed at the story node corresponding to the video segment, for example, the story node: the node introduction content corresponding to the video 1 is xx, xx is met, the user directly watches the node introduction content in the story line list corresponding to the role, the story line corresponding to the role is rapidly known, and the efficiency of understanding the story line development sequence of the whole target video by knowing the story line of the role is improved.

In the embodiment of the present application, the display order of at least one second video clip in the first story context list includes, but is not limited to, the following manner:

first, at least one first story node is displayed in the first story context list according to a play order of at least one second video clip in the target video, for example, the second character corresponds to store three second video clips, the three video clips correspond to three story nodes, the three second video clips may be video clips from a same set and/or a same album of the target video, illustratively, the second video clip 1 (story node 1) is a picture corresponding to the second character 16 minutes 30 seconds to 19 minutes 30 seconds in the first quarter 2 set of the target video, the second video clip 3 (story node 3) is a picture corresponding to the second character 20 minutes 15 seconds to 45 minutes 00 seconds in the first quarter 2 set of the target video, and the second video clip 2 (story node 2) is a picture corresponding to the second character 1 minute 15 seconds to 12 minutes 00 seconds in the second quarter 1 set of the target video; the first video segments 1 to 3 are arranged and aggregated in the time sequence of the target video as follows: (first video clip 1, second video clip 3, second video clip 2), and displaying node introductory content at a story node corresponding to the second video clip; or alternatively, the process may be performed,

Second, at least one first story node is displayed in the first story line progression order of the target video, i.e., in the story line progression order of the second character; or alternatively, the process may be performed,

third, at least one first story node is displayed in a first story context list according to a custom arrangement sequence, the custom arrangement sequence is used for indicating an arrangement sequence of an account personalized setting, when a user searches or plays a target video by a designated application program, the user logs in corresponding account information, the user can perform personalized setting on an aggregation rule of video segments corresponding to each role in the target video (that is, perform personalized setting on the arrangement sequence of the story nodes corresponding to each role), the personalized setting comprises arranging a plurality of video segments according to importance degrees of a story development sequence, arranging a plurality of video segments according to a funneling program of the video segments, arranging a plurality of video segments according to popularity degrees of the video segments, and the like, after receiving triggering operation of a diagonal control, based on the personalized setting, the plurality of video segments (story nodes) of the roles are arranged and aggregated, and the video segments (story nodes) after being arranged and aggregated are displayed on a current playing interface, that is, namely, the story context list corresponding to the roles is displayed.

In another alternative embodiment, in the interface for playing the second video segment corresponding to the second role, a story context list of the second video segment is displayed, at least one first story node corresponding to the second role is displayed in the story context list according to the display sequence, as shown in fig. 4, in the playing interface 43, a story context list corresponding to the second role is displayed, where the story context list includes the second video segments a-c, and in the play list, node introduction contents of the second video segment are displayed, where the node introduction contents may be a title summary corresponding to the second video segment, newly appearing role information, and so on.

In summary, in the video playing method provided by the embodiment of the present application, when a first video segment corresponding to a first character is watched, by identifying a second character in the first video segment, an entry control for jumping to play the second video segment corresponding to the second character is provided in a playing picture, so that a user can quickly understand the character relationship between each character in a target video, and the efficiency of the user in understanding the scenario of the target video is improved; in addition, other content associated with the target video can be further expanded by automatically analyzing the role relationships between roles.

In an alternative embodiment, referring to fig. 5 specifically, fig. 5 is a flowchart of a video playing method according to another exemplary embodiment of the present application, where the method is applied to a terminal for explanation, and the scheme includes:

step 501, a first character control is displayed.

In the embodiment of the application, the first character control is used for playing a first video segment associated with a first character in the target video, and the first video segment can be used for indicating the video segment containing the first character, can also be used for indicating a pro-file prompt segment leading out the first character, and can also be used for indicating the video segment with a common story (event) of other characters and the first character, namely, the first character cannot appear in the first video segment at the moment.

Optionally, the method of displaying the first character control includes, but is not limited to, the following:

firstly, displaying at least one role control corresponding to a target video on a video content introduction interface of the target video, wherein the role control is used for playing a video clip corresponding to at least one role contained in the target video, and the role control comprises the first role control; in an optional embodiment, the video content introduction interface is an interface obtained by searching the target video through a specified application, where the specified application may be a browser application, a video playing application, a live broadcast application, a cloud disk storage application, and the application is not limited to this.

In another optional embodiment, the video content introduction interface may also be an introduction interface of an image corresponding to the target video, where the image may be a scenario, a post-scene flower, a propaganda poster, a hand-painted work, etc. of the target video, and the terminal identifies the target video corresponding to the image by using an image identification technology, and displays an entry control for entering the playing target video in the introduction interface.

As shown in fig. 4, a "three-country meaning" is input in a search area 601 of a browser display interface 600 to search, a video introduction area 602 corresponding to the "three-country meaning" and a role relationship display area 606 are displayed in the browser display interface 600, the video introduction area 602 includes a scenario introduction area 603 of the "three-country meaning", a poster display area 604, and an entry control 605 for playing the "three-country meaning", and a user can know about the general scenario of the "three-country meaning" by looking at the related text description in the scenario introduction area 603, and can trigger the entry control 605, and in response to receiving a trigger operation on the entry control 605, the currently displayed browser display interface 600 is switched to a playing interface for playing the three-country meaning. The role relation display area 606 is displayed with a role control corresponding to the role of the kernel in the three-country meaning, the role relation display area 606 is also displayed with introduction information of the roles and association information between the roles, the introduction information comprises names of the roles and identities of the roles, the association information is used for indicating association relations existing between the roles, and a user can trigger a first role control 607 in the role relation display area 606 to watch a first video clip corresponding to the first role.

Secondly, in the process of watching the target video, the user displays a role viewing control at a designated area of a video playing interface of the target video; and in response to receiving the triggering operation of the diagonal view control, displaying a floating layer window containing at least one role control in the target video on a video playing interface of the target video in a superposition manner, wherein the transparency of the floating layer window can be set according to the actual requirement of a user. As shown in fig. 7, a character view control (not shown in fig. 7) in the video playing interface is triggered, a floating layer window 701 is displayed in a superimposed manner in the video playing interface 700 of the target video, at least one character control is displayed in the floating layer window 701, description information of all characters or description information of part of characters corresponding to the target video is displayed in the floating layer window 701, the description information includes head image information of the characters, name information of the characters and identity information of the characters, a first character control 702 is displayed in the floating layer window 701, and the first character control 702 includes head image information and name information corresponding to a first character "character a" in an exemplary manner.

Step 502, in response to receiving a triggering operation on a first character control, acquiring a first video segment associated with a first character.

In an embodiment of the present application, the manner of determining at least one first video clip associated with a first character includes, but is not limited to, the following manners:

first, identifying a second candidate video segment with an association relationship with a first character from a preset video library, wherein the association relationship is used for indicating the relationship between the first character and the first character in the candidate video segment, and the association relationship can be that the candidate video segment contains the first character, namely, the first video segment is a video segment in which the first character appears; the first video clip can also be a forensic cue clip for leading out the first character, namely, the first video clip plays a guiding role on the appearance of the first character; the video clips with common events between other roles and the first role can also be used, namely, the first role cannot appear in the first video clip, and the other roles and the first role which appear do common events; matching the second candidate video segment with the target video to obtain at least one first video segment corresponding to the target video; the specific process of video matching comprises the following steps: comparing and de-duplicating the second candidate video segment with the target video, and determining a segment overlapped with the second candidate video segment from the target video as at least one first video segment; the terminal extracts a second candidate video segment containing the labels in the preset video library, compares the second candidate video segment with the target video, and performs de-duplication processing to determine at least one first video segment associated with the first character. Optionally, the preset video library is a video library of a preset short video program, that is, the video library of the preset short video program includes a short video disclosed on a short video platform of the preset short video program, and the short video is attached with a video tag.

And secondly, the terminal locally stores video clips related to each role in the target video in advance, and the terminal directly acquires at least one first video clip related to the first role from the local after receiving the triggering operation of the first role control.

Thirdly, packing and storing video fragments associated with each role in the target video in a remote storage system, updating the video fragments associated with each role in the target video stored in the remote storage system in real time by a server according to label information in the uploaded video, and sending a request for acquiring at least one first video fragment associated with the first role to the server by the terminal after the terminal receives triggering operation on the first role control, wherein the server acquires the at least one first video fragment associated with the first role in the target video from the remote storage system according to the request.

In the embodiment of the application, in response to receiving the triggering operation of the first character control, a second story line list corresponding to a second character is displayed, wherein the second story line list comprises at least one second story node related to the first character, the kth second story node corresponds to the kth first video segment, and k is a positive integer.

In the embodiment of the application, at least one second story node is displayed in the second story line development sequence of the target video, and node introduction content is correspondingly displayed on at least one second story node, wherein the node introduction content is used for summarizing the content of the first video segment corresponding to the second story node, for example, title information corresponding to the first video segment, role information summary appearing in the first video segment and the like are displayed at the first story node.

In the embodiment of the present application, the display order of at least one first video clip in the second story context list includes, but is not limited to, the following manner:

first, displaying at least one second story node in a second story context list according to the play order of at least one first video clip in a target video; or alternatively, the process may be performed,

secondly, displaying at least one second story node in a second story line list according to the story line development sequence of the target video, namely sequentially playing and displaying according to the story line development sequence of the first character; or alternatively, the process may be performed,

third, at least one first video segment is sequentially played by at least one second story node in the second story context list according to a custom arrangement sequence, the custom arrangement sequence is used for indicating an arrangement sequence of an account personalized setting, when a user searches or plays a target video by a designated application program, corresponding account information is logged in, the user can perform personalized setting on an aggregation rule of video segments corresponding to each role in the target video (i.e., perform personalized setting on an arrangement sequence of story nodes corresponding to each role), the personalized setting comprises arranging a plurality of video segments according to importance degrees of a story development sequence, arranging a plurality of video segments according to a fuzzing program of the video segments, arranging a plurality of video segments according to popularity degrees of the video segments, and the like, after receiving triggering operation of a diagonal control, based on the personalized setting, the plurality of video segments (story nodes) of the roles are arranged and aggregated, and a set of the video segments (story nodes) after being arranged and aggregated is displayed on a current playing interface, that is, the story context list corresponding to the role is displayed.

In another alternative embodiment, in an interface for playing the first video clips corresponding to the first character, a play list of the first video clips is displayed, in which the introduction content of the first video clips is displayed in the play order of at least one first video clip, as shown in fig. 4, in the play interface 41, a story context list corresponding to the first character is displayed, where the story context list includes the first video clips a-c, and in the story context list, the introduction content of the first video clip is displayed, where the introduction content may be a title summary corresponding to the first video clip, newly appearing character information, and so on.

In the embodiment of the application, at least one first video clip in the second story vein list is sequentially played according to the sequence of the second story vein list, and optionally, a user can actively trigger a target story node in the second story vein list to play according to the watching requirement.

In step 503, in response to the second character appearing in the play frame of the first video clip, a second character control corresponding to the second character is displayed.

Optionally, in the process of playing at least one video clip, the terminal performs role recognition on the current frame of the first video clip to obtain candidate roles appearing in the playing picture of the first video clip.

Optionally, based on the role relation map corresponding to the candidate role and the target video, determining a second role appearing in the playing picture of the first video segment, and displaying a second role control corresponding to the second role, where the second role control can be understood as a shortcut entry for quickly switching from playing the video segment corresponding to the first role to playing the video segment corresponding to the second role, and a role association relation exists between the second role and the first role.

The specific implementation of this step is the same as that of step 303, and will not be described here again.

And step 504, in response to receiving the triggering operation of the second character control, displaying a character introduction interface.

Optionally, a relationship description content between the first character and the second character is also displayed in the second character control, where the relationship description content is used to indicate a character association relationship existing between the first character and the second character, and the second character is an university college of the first character, and after the terminal identifies the second character, the second character control is displayed in the interface, and the second character control is displayed with the university college of the third character, and clicks to view detailed introduction content, and optionally, the second character control is displayed with head portrait information corresponding to the third character.

Optionally, in response to receiving a triggering operation on the second character control, superposing and displaying a character introduction interface corresponding to the second character in the current playing picture, wherein the character introduction interface comprises introduction information of the second character, an entry control for viewing at least one second video segment corresponding to the second character and a relationship network of the first character in the target video, and the relationship network comprises a relationship description between the first character and at least one character in the target video; optionally, the relationship description between the first character and the second character is highlighted in the relationship network.

Optionally, the character introduction interface further includes a play control, where the play control is used to play at least one second video clip corresponding to the second character; in response to receiving a trigger operation on the play control, switching the current interface to a play interface of at least one second video clip corresponding to the second role.

In step 505, at least one second video clip associated with a second character is played in response to receiving a trigger operation of a play control in the character introduction information interface.

Optionally, at least one video clip corresponding to the second role is obtained and played.

Referring specifically to fig. 8, fig. 8 is a schematic diagram illustrating an interface for displaying relationship descriptions provided in an exemplary embodiment of the present application, where a terminal plays a first video segment corresponding to a first character in a target video, and the first video segment includes a first character 801; in response to the second character 802 appearing in the play screen of the first video clip, a second character control 803 is displayed in an overlaid manner in the current play screen, wherein a relationship description between the first character and the second character is displayed in the second character control 803, for example, the second character is subordinate to the first character; in response to receiving a triggering operation on the second character control, a character introduction interface 804 is displayed in an overlapping manner in the current interface, wherein the character introduction interface 804 comprises introduction content 805 of the second character, a playing control 807 for playing a second video clip corresponding to the second character and a relationship network 806 of the first character in the target video, and the relationship network 806 of the first character in the target video further comprises a control 808 for viewing a complete character relationship map of the target video; optionally, a hidden control 809 is also displayed in the character introduction interface 804, where the hidden control 809 is used to hide the character introduction interface 804.

The specific implementation of this step is the same as that of step 304, and will not be described here again.

In this embodiment, video clips are aggregated based on a story development sequence corresponding to a role or a story development sequence of a target video, and the story development sequence between roles is linked through a role control for switching video clips displayed in a play picture, so that the efficiency of a user in understanding a target video scenario is improved.

In this embodiment, by displaying the character introduction interface corresponding to the second character in a superimposed manner on the play interface, the user may directly obtain the association relationship between the second character and the first character, the identity information corresponding to the second character, and the relationship network of the first character in the target video from the character introduction interface, so that the user is prevented from executing unnecessary searching steps, and the efficiency of the user for obtaining the target video information is improved; and controls for jumping to play the second video clip and checking the complete character relation map are provided in the character introduction interface, so that the efficiency of understanding the target video story line by the user is further improved.

In an alternative embodiment, referring to fig. 9 specifically, fig. 9 is a flowchart of a video playing method according to another exemplary embodiment of the present application, where the method is applied to a terminal for explanation, and the method includes:

step 901, a first character control is displayed.

Optionally, the user selects a target video for watching, wherein the target video is used for indicating a video clip to be played, and the target video includes at least one of a short video, a movie episode, and a documentary, but is not limited to the short video.

Optionally, in the related interface for displaying the target video, a role relationship map corresponding to the target video is displayed, where the role relationship map is used to indicate a relationship between roles in the target video, and may also be used to indicate a relationship between principal angles in the target video, which is not limited in the present application.

Optionally, the role relationship map includes a role control corresponding to each role, where the role control is used to indicate role information of the role in the target video, including but not limited to, persona information for persona decoration, name of the role decorated in the target video, identity of the role decorated in the target video, and persona information dubbed for the role screen.

The execution of this step is the same as that of step 301, and will not be described here again.

In step 902, a first video clip associated with a first persona is acquired in response to receiving a trigger operation for the first persona control.

Alternatively, the first character control may be understood as a shortcut entry for playing a video clip corresponding to the first character.

Optionally, in response to receiving a triggering operation on the first character control, the triggering operation includes, but is not limited to, a clicking operation, a long-press operation, a dragging operation, a triggering operation input through an external device, and a voice control operation, and a first video clip corresponding to the first character is obtained.

The execution of this step is the same as that of step 302 and will not be described here again.

And step 903, in response to the second character appearing in the play screen of the first video clip, displaying a second character control corresponding to the second character.

Optionally, acquiring a role relation graph corresponding to the target video, wherein the role relation graph is used for indicating the association relation among roles in the target video; and determining a second role appearing in the playing picture of the first video clip based on the candidate roles and the role relation map, and displaying a second role control corresponding to the second role in the playing picture.

The execution of this step is the same as that of step 303, and will not be described here again.

Step 904, in response to receiving a trigger operation for the second character control, playing at least one second video clip associated with the second character.

Optionally, in response to receiving a triggering operation on the second character control, where the triggering operation includes, but is not limited to, a clicking operation, a long-press operation, a dragging operation, a triggering operation input through an external device, a voice control operation, and the like, at least one second video clip corresponding to the second character is obtained and automatically played.

The execution of this step is the same as that of step 304, and will not be described here again.

In step 905, a return control is displayed in the play screen of the second video clip.

Optionally, a return control is displayed at a preset position of the playing picture, where the return control is used for indicating that the second video segment currently played is switched to the first video segment corresponding to the first character.

In some embodiments, when switching from playing the first video clip to playing the second video clip and from playing the second video clip to playing the first video clip, after successful switching, displaying a prompt message in a playing interface in a superimposed manner, wherein the prompt message is used for prompting that the video has been successfully switched, and after the display time of the prompt message reaches a preset time, canceling to display the prompt message in the interface; or providing a closing control in the prompt information, and actively cancelling the display of the prompt information by triggering the closing control.

Optionally, in the process that the display time of the prompt information reaches the preset time, as the display time increases, the display transparency of the prompt information also becomes high.

Step 906, in response to receiving the trigger operation of the return control, switching the currently played second video clip to play the first video clip associated with the first character.

Optionally, after the second video clip is switched from playing to playing the first video clip, the playing rule of the first video clip includes, but is not limited to, the following ways:

firstly, switching the currently played second video clip to play the first video clip according to the aggregation sequence of the first video clips corresponding to the first character, that is, replaying at least one first video clip corresponding to the first character after receiving the triggering operation of the return control.

And secondly, switching the second video clip which is currently played to the first video clip corresponding to a historical playing time stamp, wherein the historical playing time stamp is used for indicating the time stamp of the first video clip which is played from the last time.

Thirdly, responding to the superposition of the currently played second video clip and the content of the first video, and switching to play the first video clip according to the playing progress of the currently played second video clip; the method comprises the steps of sequentially playing a next first video clip corresponding to a first video clip overlapped with a second video clip in response to the completion of playing of the currently played second video clip, avoiding the user from repeatedly watching the same video clip before and after video switching, and improving the efficiency of watching a target video for the user; and switching and playing the first video clip according to the playing progress of the second video clip which is currently played in response to the fact that the second video clip which is currently played is not completely played, so that the scenario connection is smooth before and after the video clips corresponding to different roles are switched, and the efficiency of a user in understanding the content of the target video scenario is improved.

Referring specifically to fig. 10, fig. 10 shows an interface schematic diagram of switching from a second video clip to a first video clip in the embodiment of the present application, after a second video clip corresponding to a second role is successfully played in response to a trigger operation of a second role control, displaying first prompt information 1002 in a playing screen, where the first prompt information 1002 is used to prompt a user that video switching has been successfully completed (here, the switching from the first video clip to the second video clip is successfully completed), and in an interface of playing at least one second video clip corresponding to the second role, further displaying a clip name and a clip source corresponding to each second video clip, for example, displaying a clip title "second role meets the first role" corresponding to the second video clip b in the playing interface, and a target video 1 st set for 06 minutes 30 seconds "corresponding to the second video clip b, where the user can autonomously select the second video clip corresponding to the second role to be viewed in the current interface; in response to receiving the triggering operation on the return control 1001, the user switches from playing the second video segment to playing the first video segment again, and after successful switching, second prompt information 1003 is displayed in the current playing frame, where the second prompt information 1003 is used to prompt the user that the video switching has been completed successfully (here, the second video segment is switched to the first video segment successfully), and the user can select the first video segment corresponding to the first character to be viewed in the current interface autonomously. It should be noted that, in fig. 10, the playback time of the original first video clip is returned when the first video clip is switched, which is merely an exemplary example, and the playback frames of the first video clip and the second video clip before and after the switching may be the same or different, which is not limited in the present application.

In the above embodiment, in the process of switching from the first video clip to the second video clip, the second video clip may be in a play state or a pause state; in the process of switching from the second video clip to the first video clip, the first video clip may be in a playing state or a pause state, which is not limited in the present application.

In the embodiment of the application, the video clips are aggregated based on the story development sequence corresponding to the roles or the story development sequence of the target video, and the story development sequence among the roles is linked through the role control for switching the video clips displayed in the playing picture, so that the efficiency of the user for understanding the target video scenario is improved; by providing the control for switching the video clips in the playing picture, the user can freely switch the video clips corresponding to each role of the target video back and forth, and the efficiency of the user in understanding the target video story line is improved.

In an alternative embodiment, referring specifically to fig. 11, fig. 11 is a flowchart of video playing provided in another exemplary embodiment of the present application, where the method is applied to a terminal for explanation, and the method includes:

step 1100, click on character a head portrait into character a storyline.

In some embodiments, a character relationship map is displayed in a content introduction interface or a playing interface of the target video, and a head portrait corresponding to at least one character in the target video is displayed in the character relationship map, so that the head portrait can be triggered to enter a story line corresponding to a specific role for watching.

Schematically, a head image corresponding to a role A is displayed in a role relation map corresponding to a target video, a user clicks the head image of the role A to enter a story line corresponding to the role A, and the story line corresponding to the role A is used for indicating story experiences corresponding to the role A or indicating story experiences of the role A and other roles; for example, referring to fig. 6, the user clicks on the head portrait 607 corresponding to character a in the interface shown in fig. 6 to enter the storyline corresponding to character a.

Step 1101, identifying at least one first video segment corresponding to character a in the target video.

In some embodiments, after receiving a trigger operation on the head portrait of the character a, the rear end obtains at least one video clip corresponding to the character a.

In other embodiments, candidate video clips carrying a character a and/or a target video tag are identified from a preset video library, comparison and de-duplication processing are performed on the candidate video clips and the target video, at least one first video clip corresponding to the character a is determined, and at least one video clip is named by manual labeling, that is, each first video clip corresponds to a corresponding title; the back end feeds the identified at least one first video clip back to the front end for display.

In some embodiments, at least one first video clip is played according to the playing order of the target video, and a story line history corresponding to the character a is displayed in the designated area, where the story line history includes a shortcut entry of the at least one first video clip, a title name corresponding to the at least one first video clip, and a time out/source of the at least one video clip, and optionally, a presence of other characters is displayed on a peripheral side of the display area of the title name corresponding to the at least one first video clip, for example, a character B newly appears in the first video clip a, and a prompt message of "character B appears" is displayed on a peripheral side of the first video clip a.

Step 1102, automatically playing at least one first video clip according to the playing sequence of the target video.

In some embodiments, the first video segments are automatically played according to the playing order of the target video, or a storyline list corresponding to the role a is displayed in the current interface, the user selects the target first video segments from the storyline list to watch, and when one first video segment is watched, the next first video segment is automatically played according to the aggregation order of at least one first video segment.

Step 1103, view character a storyline.

In some embodiments, after clicking the head image of the character a to obtain the story line segment corresponding to the character a, at least one first video segment corresponding to the character a is automatically played, and the user may select a target first video segment from the at least one first video segment displayed in the interface for viewing.

And 1104, identifying the role B by comparing the current frame picture with the role relation map.

In some embodiments, in the first video segment corresponding to the playing role a, the terminal background automatically extracts the playing picture of the current frame for face recognition, compares the images according to the role relation of the target video, identifies the role B, and determines whether the role B has a direct association relationship with the role a, and the determination process is specifically referred to step 1105 and step 1106, which are not described in detail herein.

Step 1105, it is determined whether character B is the core character of the target video.

Optionally, the core role is used to indicate a primary role that pushes the target video storyline, e.g., principal man angle number one, principal man angle number two, principal woman angle, etc.

In some embodiments, determining whether the character B appears in the character relationship graph according to the face recognition result, and if so, determining that the character B is a core character of the target video; if the character does not appear in the character relation map, continuing to identify the character appearing in the first video segment until the newly appearing character is the core character of the target video.

Step 1106, it is determined whether the number of second video clips corresponding to the character B exceeds a preset number.

Optionally, when the character B belongs to a core character of the target video, acquiring a second video segment corresponding to the character B;

when the number of the second video clips corresponding to the role B exceeds the preset number, the second video clips are aggregated, and the preset number can be set independently according to a user.

Step 1107, aggregating role B storylines corresponding to role B.

Optionally, according to the second video segments corresponding to the role B, manually labeling the story lines described by each second video segment, and aggregating the second video segments after the manual labeling into the role B story line corresponding to the role B.

Step 1108, displaying the head portrait corresponding to the role B, and showing the relationship description of the role B and the role A.

In some embodiments, after the aggregation of at least one second video clip corresponding to the character B is completed, displaying an avatar corresponding to the character B in a designated area in the playing interface of the first video clip, and displaying a description of the relationship between the character B and the character a.

Step 1109, click on character B header.

In some embodiments, the user clicks on the avatar corresponding to trigger character B, entering the interface of the storyline corresponding to viewing character B.

In other embodiments, in response to receiving a triggering operation of the character B avatar, a play time/play progress of the storyline segment corresponding to character a is reserved and stored.

Step 1110, click character B storyline.

In some embodiments, after clicking on the character B head portrait, a prompt is displayed in the interface, the prompt being for prompting the user whether to enter into viewing the character B storyline; and in response to receiving the determining operation of the prompt information, displaying a story line corresponding to the role B in the interface.

Step 1111, enter the character B storyline and play from the same moment as the character a storyline.

In response to receiving triggering operation on the character B story line, automatically playing pictures which are in the same segment and at the same moment as the character A story line in the character B story line, enabling the story line to be switched before and after, ensuring smoothness of the pictures, avoiding the situation that when different videos are switched, the pictures are greatly different before and after, and improving video playing efficiency.

Step 1112, view role B storyline.

In some embodiments, after the character B avatar is clicked to obtain the story line segment corresponding to the character B, the second video segment corresponding to the character B and ending playing the timestamp of the story line of the character a is automatically played.

In some embodiments, during the playing of the second video clip, the user may select a target second video clip from the displayed list of second videos for viewing.

Step 1113 clicks the return control in character B storyline to return to viewing character a.

In some embodiments, in the playing frame of the second video segment, a return control is displayed in a designated area of the interface, where the return control is used to instruct switching the storyline segment corresponding to the character B back to the storyline segment corresponding to the character a.

Step 1114, return to the original progress moment of the character a storyline original segment.

In some embodiments, in response to receiving a trigger operation on the return control, switching the storyline segment corresponding to the currently playing character B back to the storyline segment corresponding to the character a; and acquiring the playing time/playing progress of the story line segment corresponding to the role A, and continuously playing the story line segment of the role A according to the playing time/playing progress.

Step 1115, continue watching the video clip corresponding to the character a storyline.

In some embodiments, the user continues to view the plurality of first video clips included in the character a storyline.

In some optional embodiments, when other character avatars appear in the first video segment, the story line segments corresponding to other characters can be checked by clicking the other character avatars, and then free switching is realized by triggering a return control, so that a user can conveniently and quickly understand the relationship and the plot trend between the characters.

In the embodiment of the application, the video clips are aggregated based on the story development sequence corresponding to the roles or the story development sequence of the target video, and the story development sequence among the roles is linked through the role control for switching the video clips displayed in the playing picture, so that the efficiency of the user in understanding the target video scenario is improved.

In the embodiment of the application, when a user watches the first video segment corresponding to the first character in the target video, the character relation among the characters appearing in the first video segment is intelligently identified, and the unimportant characters in the target video are filtered by setting the character identification conditions, so that the computing resources of the terminal are effectively saved; and providing an entry control for jumping video clips corresponding to different roles/different story lines in the playing picture, realizing free switching, and effectively improving the information acquisition efficiency when a user watches a target video.

Fig. 12 is a block diagram of a video playing device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present application, and as shown in fig. 12, the device includes: a display module 1201 and a play module 1202;

the display module 1201 is configured to display a first character control, where the first character control is configured to play a first video segment associated with a first character in a target video;

a playing module 1202, configured to play the first video clip associated with the first character in response to receiving a triggering operation on the first character control;

the display module 1201 is further configured to display a second role control corresponding to a second role in response to occurrence of the second role in a play screen of the first video segment, where a role association relationship exists between the second role and the first role, and the second role control is configured to play the second video segment associated with the second role in the target video;

The playing module 1202 is further configured to play at least one second video clip associated with the second character in response to receiving a trigger operation of the second character control.

In an alternative embodiment, as shown in fig. 13, the playing module 1202 is further configured to continue playing the second video clip according to the playing content corresponding to the playing progress of the first video clip, where the playing progress is used to indicate the playing content indicated by the corresponding timestamp when the first video clip is switched.

In an optional embodiment, the display module 1201 is further configured to display, in response to receiving a triggering operation on the second character control, a first story line list corresponding to the second character; the first story context list comprises at least one first story node associated with the second character, wherein the ith first story node corresponds to the ith second video segment, and i is a positive integer; the at least one first story node is correspondingly displayed with node introduction content, and the node introduction content is used for summarizing second video clips associated with the first story node.

In an optional embodiment, the display module 1201 is further configured to display the at least one first story node in the first story line list according to a story line development order of the target video.

In an alternative embodiment, the display module 1201 is further configured to display the at least one first story node in the first story context list according to a playing order of the at least one second video segment in the target video.

In an alternative embodiment, the playing module 1202 is further configured to sequentially play the at least one second video clip according to an arrangement order of the at least one first story node in the first story context list.

In an alternative embodiment, as shown in fig. 13, the apparatus further includes an identification module 1203, an acquisition module 1204, and a determination module 1205;

the identifying module 1203 is configured to perform role identification on the play image to obtain candidate roles appearing in the play image;

the obtaining module 1204 is configured to obtain a role relationship graph corresponding to the target video, where the role relationship graph is used to indicate an association relationship between roles that occur in the target video;

a determining module 1205, configured to determine the second character appearing in the play screen based on the candidate character and the character relationship map, and display the second character control.

In an alternative embodiment, as shown in fig. 13, the determining module 1205 is further configured to determine the second character appearing in the play screen;

the identifying module 1203 is further configured to identify, from a preset video library, a first candidate video segment having an association relationship with the second character;

the determining module 1205 is further configured to match the first candidate video segment with the target video, and determine, from the target video, a segment that coincides with the first candidate video segment as the at least one second video segment.

In an alternative embodiment, as shown in fig. 13, the display module 1201 is further configured to display, on a video content introduction interface of the target video, at least one role control corresponding to the target video, where the role control is used to play a video segment associated with at least one role included in the target video, and the role control includes the first role control; or, displaying the floating layer window containing the at least one role control in a superposition manner on the video playing interface of the target video.

In an alternative embodiment, as shown in fig. 13, the identifying module 1203 is further configured to identify, from a preset video library, a second candidate video segment having an association relationship with the first character;

The determining module 1205 is further configured to match the second candidate video segment with the target video, and determine, from the target video, a segment that coincides with the second candidate video segment as the at least one first video segment. In an alternative embodiment, as shown in fig. 13, the display module 1201 is further configured to display a second story line list corresponding to the first character in response to receiving a trigger operation of the first character control; the second story context list comprises at least one second story node associated with the first character, wherein an nth second story node corresponds to an nth first video segment, and n is a positive integer; and the at least one second story node is correspondingly displayed with node introduction content, and the node introduction content is used for summarizing the first video clips corresponding to the second story node.

In an alternative embodiment, as shown in fig. 13, the display module 1201 is further configured to display the at least one second story node in the second story line list according to a story line development order of the target video; or displaying the at least one second story node in the second story context list according to the playing sequence of the at least one first video segment in the target video.

In an alternative embodiment, as shown in fig. 13, the playing module 1202 is further configured to sequentially play the at least one first video clip according to an arrangement order of the at least one second story interface in the second story context list.

In an optional embodiment, the display module 1201 is further configured to display a playlist of the at least one first video clip, where introduction contents of the first video clip are displayed in a play order of the at least one first video clip.

The display module 1201 is further configured to display a relationship description between the first character and the second character while displaying a second character control corresponding to the second character.

In an alternative embodiment, as shown in fig. 13, the display module 1201 is further configured to display a relationship network of the first character in the target video, where the relationship network includes a relationship description between the first character and at least one character in the target video; highlighting a description of a relationship between the first character and the second character in the relationship network.

In an alternative embodiment, as shown in fig. 13, the display module 1201 is further configured to display a return control during playing of the second video segment, where the return control is used to instruct to switch from playing the second video segment that is currently playing to playing the first video segment associated with the first character.

The playing module 1202 is further configured to switch, in response to receiving a trigger operation on the return control, a currently played second video clip to play the first video clip associated with the first character, where the switched first video clip is in a playing state or a pause state.

In an alternative embodiment, as shown in fig. 13, the playing module 1202 is further configured to switch the currently playing second video clip to play the first video clip according to the aggregation order of the first video clips associated with the first character; or, switching the second video clip which is currently played to the first video clip corresponding to a historical playing time stamp, wherein the historical playing time stamp is used for indicating the time stamp of playing the first video clip last time; or, in response to the coincidence of the currently played second video segment and the content of the first video, switching to play the first video segment according to the playing progress of the currently played second video segment.

In an alternative embodiment, as shown in fig. 13, the playing module 1202 is further configured to sequentially play a next first video clip corresponding to a first video clip overlapped with the second video clip in response to the playing of the currently played second video clip being completed;

and switching the playing and the first video clip according to the playing progress of the currently played second video clip in response to the currently played second video clip not being completely played.

In summary, in the video playing device provided by the embodiment of the application, when a first video segment associated with a first character is watched, by identifying a second character in the first video segment, the character relationship between the first character and the second character is automatically analyzed, and an entry control for jumping to play the second video segment associated with the second character is provided in a playing picture, so that a user can quickly understand the character relationship between each character in a target video, and the efficiency of understanding the scenario of the target video by the user is improved; in addition, by automatically analyzing the role relation among the roles, the video clips are aggregated based on the story development sequence corresponding to the roles or the story development sequence of the target video, and the story development sequence among the roles is linked through the role control for switching the video clips displayed in the playing picture, the efficiency of understanding the target video scenario by the user is improved, and other content related to the target video can be further expanded and consumed.

It should be noted that: in the video playing device provided in the above embodiment, only the division of the above functional modules is used for illustration, and in practical application, the above functional allocation may be performed by different functional modules according to needs, that is, the internal structure of the device is divided into different functional modules, so as to perform all or part of the functions described above. In addition, the video playing device and the video playing method provided in the foregoing embodiments belong to the same concept, and specific implementation processes of the video playing device and the video playing method are detailed in the method embodiments and are not repeated herein.

Fig. 14 is a schematic diagram showing a structure of a server according to an exemplary embodiment of the present application. The server may be the server 220 shown in fig. 2. Specifically, the present application relates to a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device.

The server 220 includes a central processing unit (CPU, central Processing Unit) 1401, a system Memory 1404 including a random access Memory (RAM, random Access Memory) 1402 and a Read Only Memory (ROM) 1403, and a system bus 1405 connecting the system Memory 1404 and the central processing unit 1401. The server 220 also includes a basic input/output system (I/O system, input Output System) 1406 to facilitate the transfer of information between the various devices within the computer, and a mass storage device 1407 for storing an operating system 1413, application programs 1414, and other program modules 1415.

The basic input/output system 1406 includes a display 1408 for displaying information and an input device 1409, such as a mouse, keyboard, etc., for a user to input information. Wherein a display 1408 and an input device 1409 are connected to the central processing unit 1401 via an input output controller 1410 connected to the system bus 1405. The basic input/output system 1406 may also include an input/output controller 1410 for receiving and processing input from a number of other devices, such as a keyboard, mouse, or electronic stylus. Similarly, the input output controller 1410 also provides output to a display screen, a printer, or other type of output device.

The mass storage device 1407 is connected to the central processing unit 1401 through a mass storage controller (not shown) connected to the system bus 1405. Mass storage device 1407 and its associated computer-readable media provide non-volatile storage for server 220. That is, mass storage device 1407 may include a computer readable medium (not shown) such as a hard disk or compact disc read only memory (CD-ROM, compact Disc Read Only Memory) drive.

Computer readable media may include computer storage media and communication media without loss of generality. Computer storage media includes volatile and nonvolatile, removable and non-removable media implemented in any method or technology for storage of information such as computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules or other data. Computer storage media includes RAM, ROM, erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM, erasable Programmable Read Only Memory), electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM, electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory), flash memory or other solid state memory devices, CD-ROM, digital versatile disks (DVD, digital Versatile Disc) or other optical storage, magnetic cassettes, magnetic tape, magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices. Of course, those skilled in the art will recognize that computer storage media are not limited to the ones described above. The system memory 1404 and mass storage device 1407 described above may be collectively referred to as memory.

According to various embodiments of the application, server 220 may also operate by being connected to remote computers on a network, such as the Internet. That is, the server 220 may be connected to the network 1412 through a network interface unit 1411 coupled to the system bus 1405, or the network interface unit 1411 may be used to connect to other types of networks or remote computer systems (not shown).

The memory also includes one or more programs, one or more programs stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the CPU. It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the structure shown in fig. 14 is not limiting of the terminal and may include more or fewer components than shown, or may combine certain components, or may employ a different arrangement of components.

The embodiment of the application also provides a computer device which can be implemented as a terminal as shown in fig. 2. The computer device includes a processor and a memory, where at least one instruction, at least one program, a code set, or an instruction set is stored in the memory, where at least one instruction, at least one program, a code set, or an instruction set is loaded and executed by the processor to implement the video playing method provided by the above method embodiments.

Embodiments of the present application further provide a computer readable storage medium having at least one instruction, at least one program, a code set, or an instruction set stored thereon, where the at least one instruction, the at least one program, the code set, or the instruction set is loaded and executed by a processor to implement the video playing method provided by the foregoing method embodiments.

Embodiments of the present application also provide a computer program product or computer program comprising computer instructions stored in a computer readable storage medium. The processor of the computer device reads the computer instructions from the computer-readable storage medium, and the processor executes the computer instructions to cause the computer device to perform the video playback method according to any one of the above embodiments.

Alternatively, the computer-readable storage medium may include: read Only Memory (ROM), random access Memory (RAM, random Access Memory), solid state disk (SSD, solid State Drives), or optical disk, etc. The random access memory may include resistive random access memory (ReRAM, resistance Random Access Memory) and dynamic random access memory (DRAM, dynamic Random Access Memory), among others. The foregoing embodiment numbers of the present application are merely for the purpose of description, and do not represent the advantages or disadvantages of the embodiments.

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that all or part of the steps for implementing the above embodiments may be implemented by hardware, or may be implemented by a program for instructing relevant hardware, where the program may be stored in a computer readable storage medium, and the storage medium may be a read-only memory, a magnetic disk or an optical disk, etc.

The foregoing description of the preferred embodiments of the present application is not intended to limit the application, but rather, the application is to be construed as limited to the appended claims.

Claims

1. A video playing method, the method comprising:

2. The method of claim 1, wherein playing at least one second video clip associated with the second character in response to receiving a trigger operation for the second character control comprises:

and continuing to play the second video clip according to the play content corresponding to the play progress of the first video clip, wherein the play progress is used for indicating the play content indicated by the corresponding time stamp when the first video clip is switched.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

responding to the received triggering operation of the second character control, and displaying a first story line list corresponding to the second character; the first story context list comprises at least one first story node associated with the second character, wherein the ith first story node corresponds to the ith second video segment, and i is a positive integer;

and the at least one first story node is correspondingly displayed with node introduction content, and the node introduction content is used for summarizing the second video clips corresponding to the first story node.

4. A method according to claim 3, wherein the displaying of the first story line list corresponding to the second character comprises:

and displaying the at least one first story node in the first story line progression order of the target video.

5. A method according to claim 3, wherein the displaying of the first story line list corresponding to the second character comprises:

and displaying the at least one first story node in the first story context list according to the play sequence of the at least one second video segment in the target video.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein said playing at least one second video clip associated with said second character comprises:

and sequentially playing the at least one second video clip according to the arrangement sequence of the at least one first story node in the first story context list.

7. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the displaying, in response to occurrence of a second character in the play screen of the first video clip, a second character control corresponding to the second character includes:

Performing role recognition on the play picture to obtain candidate roles appearing in the play picture;

acquiring a role relation graph corresponding to the target video, wherein the role relation graph is used for indicating the association relation among roles appearing in the target video;

and determining the second character appearing in the playing picture based on the candidate character and the character relation map, and displaying the second character control.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein after the determining the second character appearing in the play screen, further comprising:

determining the second role appearing in the play picture;

identifying a first candidate video segment with an association relationship with the second role from a preset video library;

matching the first candidate video segment with the target video;

and determining a segment which coincides with the first candidate video segment from the target video as the at least one second video segment.

9. The method of any of claims 1 to 6, wherein, in response to receiving a trigger operation for a first character control, before playing the first video segment associated with the first character, further comprising:

Displaying at least one role control corresponding to the target video on a video content introduction interface of the target video, wherein the role control is used for playing at least one role-associated video segment contained in the target video, and the role control comprises the first role control; or alternatively, the process may be performed,

and displaying a floating layer window containing the at least one role control in a superposition manner on a video playing interface of the target video, wherein the role control comprises the first role control.

10. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 6, further comprising:

identifying a second candidate video segment with an association relationship with the first character from a preset video library;

matching the second candidate video segment with the target video;

and determining a segment overlapped with the second candidate video segment from the target video as the at least one first video segment.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein the method further comprises:

responsive to receiving a triggering operation on the first character control, displaying a second story line list corresponding to the first character; the second story context list comprises at least one second story node associated with the first character, wherein a kth second story node corresponds to a kth first video segment, and k is a positive integer;

And the at least one second story node is correspondingly displayed with node introduction content, and the node introduction content is used for summarizing the first video clips corresponding to the second story node.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the displaying a second story line list corresponding to the first character comprises:

and displaying the at least one second story node in the second story line progression order of the target video.

13. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 6, further comprising:

and displaying the relationship description between the first character and the second character while displaying a second character control corresponding to the second character.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the displaying the relationship description between the first character and the second character comprises:

displaying a relationship network of the first character in the target video, wherein the relationship network comprises a relationship description between the first character and at least one character in the target video;

highlighting a description of a relationship between the first character and the second character in the relationship network.

15. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 6, further comprising:

and displaying a return control in the playing process of the second video clip, wherein the return control is used for indicating to switch from the second video clip which is currently played to the first video clip which is associated with the first character.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein, in response to receiving a trigger operation for the second character control, playing at least one second video clip associated with the second character further comprises:

responding to the received triggering operation of the return control, and switching the second video clip which is currently played to the first video clip which is associated with the first character;

the switched first video clip is in a playing state or a pause state.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein said switching the currently playing second video clip to the first video clip associated with the first character comprises:

and switching the second video clip which is currently played to the first video clip corresponding to a historical playing time stamp, wherein the historical playing time stamp is used for indicating the time stamp of the first video clip which is played last time.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein said switching the currently playing second video clip to the first video clip associated with the first character comprises:

and responding to the coincidence of the second video clip which is currently played and the content of the first video clip, and switching and playing the first video clip according to the playing progress of the second video clip which is currently played.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein said switching playing the first video clip according to the playing progress of the currently playing second video clip comprises:

sequentially playing the next first video clip corresponding to the first video clip overlapped with the second video clip in response to the completion of playing the second video clip currently played;

and responding to the fact that the second video clip which is currently played is not completely played, and switching and playing the first video clip according to the playing progress of the second video clip which is currently played.

20. A video playback device, the device comprising: