The present invention provides a video playback method and apparatus, where the method includes: obtaining playback progress information of all sub-files in a video file, where the video file includes at least two sub-files; displaying a playback progress bar list, where the playback progress bar list includes playback progress bars of the at least two sub-files, and a playback progress bar of any sub-file displays playback progress of the any sub-file according to playback progress information of the any sub-file; receiving a user instruction used for selecting, according to the playback progress bars, a target sub-file that needs to be played, where the target sub-file is any sub-file of the at least two sub-files; and playing the target sub-file according to the instruction. By using the video playback method provided in the embodiments of the present invention, a user can accurately learn current watching statuses of all the sub-files according to the playback progress bar list, so as to avoid repeatedly opening a file that does not need to be watched. This is convenient for the user to select an episode.