The present invention provides a method for transferring a media stream and a user equipment, where the method for transferring a media stream includes: acquiring, by a browser of a first device, information about at least one second device that may be configured to present a media stream; temporarily saving each media stream acquired by the browser of the first device from a website page or a web application; marking each temporarily saved media stream; and when it is determined that a media stream selected from the marked media streams is transferred to a selected second device for presentation, parsing the selected media stream, and sending a media stream obtained by parsing to the foregoing selected second device for presentation, where the foregoing selected second device is selected according to the information about the at least one second device.