公开(公告)号：US20230024313A1

公开(公告)日：2023-01-26

申请号：US17953053

申请日：2022-09-26

Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.

Inventor： Hao Sun ,  Wenlei Dai

IPC: H04N21/643 ,  H04N21/437

Abstract: In the field of communications technologies, disclosed are a program playing method and apparatus, to resolve problems of relatively high costs of an internet protocol television (IPTV) operator and relatively high costs for subscribing to and maintaining an IPTV service by a user. In the method, a communications device receives a program playing request message sent by using a first transmission protocol. The communications device determines a corresponding target program channel based on a media file identifier included in the program playing request message, and may send a data stream request message to an IPTV platform by using a second transmission protocol. The communications device may send, by using the first transmission protocol, a received data stream to a playing device for play.