Video player and video playing control method thereof

The embodiment of the invention discloses a video player and a video playing control method of the video player. The method includes the steps that every time a triggering signal is received, real-time video data within a time period start to be collected and serve as record video data to be stored; the part, on a video time-shifting progress bar, used for controlling playing of the record video data is marked as a recording section; the position relation between a playing point and the recording section is determined when a user drags the playing point on the video time-shifting progress bar, and playing of the real-time video data or the record vide data is determined so that switching between live broadcast video data and the record video data can be achieved more conveniently and rapidly, and then video content which the user wants to watch can be rapidly and accurately found.