A method and apparatus for controlling playback of an optical disc program are provided. The method for controlling playback of an optical disc program comprises the steps of determining an execution condition of a markup sentence corresponding to the optical disc program, judging if the execution condition is a specific execution condition, generating a controlling message if the execution condition is the specific execution condition, wherein the controlling message is used for processing a markup file comprising the sentence based on the specific execution condition, so as to play back of the optical disc program. By the method and apparatus for controlling playback of an optical disc program provided by the present invention, a huge original markup file may be divided into a plurality of markup files. In addition, the preset playback effects will still be retained and at the same time, the occupation of the memory resource, the tedious work for re-editing the markup file and so on can be reduced.