The present invention provides a media resource address resolution and acquisition method, system, a server and a client terminal, and relates to the field of multimedia technologies, wherein the resolution method includes: sending an assist resolution request to a client terminal, the assist resolution request carrying reference address information of a media resource on a target website, used for directing the client terminal to acquire webpage information of the media resource from the target website according to the reference address information and return the webpage information; and receiving the webpage information of the media resource returned by the client terminal, and resolving the webpage information of the media resource to obtain a playback address of the media resource. Thus, the capability of the client terminal is utilized to assist in acquiring webpage information of a media resource required by address resolution, and the success rate of the address resolution is improved.