The invention relates to a mistaken source checking method based on video text information. The method comprises the steps of determining whether video sites have video sources corresponding to a program name by searching the video sites according to the program name; capturing video playing links on the corresponding video sites of the video sources, wherein the capturing is performed in a periodical manner; storing capturing results to form historical capturing records; analyzing text information in the historical capturing records to find out the mistaken sources, and correspondingly deleting the capturing results, corresponding to the mistaken sources, in the historical capturing records; and gathering the historical capturing records without mistaken sources at a television end via protocols, displaying in a program manner and playing according to the finally formed historical capturing records without mistaken sources. According to the method, when the video playing links are capturing, mistaken sources are checked and deleted based on the text information during the capturing of the video, and the problem that the videos have the same name and different resources in a television Internet video gathering application is solved.