Disclosed are a play control system and method. The system includes: a display control module for dividing the display screen of electrical equipment, wherein the display control module can divide the display screen into a plurality of display area layouts; a control module for determining the current display area layout and the video signal corresponding to the picture to be displayed in each display area in the current display area layout according to an instruction; and a processing module for according to determination result of the control module, processing each video signal to be displayed according to the display requirement of the display area which needs to display the video signal and providing the processed video signal meeting the display requirement of the corresponding display area to the electrical equipment.