Patent attributes
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a 360-degree panoramic video playing method, an apparatus, and a system. The method includes: receiving, by a video player, a search instruction, and displaying, according to the search instruction, locating information of a 360-degree panoramic video, where the locating information includes descriptive information of playing content in multiple angle ranges of the 360-degree panoramic video, and the descriptive information is used for determining the playing content in the multiple angle ranges; and receiving a switching instruction, and switching a playing angle range of the 360-degree panoramic video from an angle range of current playing content to a first angle range according to the switching instruction, where the first angle range is an angle range selected by a user from the multiple angle ranges.
