Patent ID: 8631452

Claim:
A channel switching processing method, comprising: Receiving by a switching server, a channel switching request sent by a receiving end; and Performing by the switching server, an exception handling procedure, when determining that current switching resource information does not meet a switching condition according to the channel switching request, and sending channel switching instruction information to the receiving end, wherein the channel switching instruction information instructs the receiving end to perform a channel switching operation corresponding to the channel switching instruction information; wherein the performing of the exception handling procedure and the sending of the channel switching instruction information to the receiving end, comprising: tailoring, by the switching server, a data stream that is not transmitted, and sending the tailored data stream and first channel switching instruction information to the receiving end, wherein the first channel switching instruction information comprises: first description information and first processing information; the first description information comprises at least one of: a destination address of the tailored data stream, tailoring information of the tailored data stream, and server exception information; and the first processing information instructs the receiving end to perform: ignore lost content in the received data stream, cancel data error correction, update playback delay, and enable adaptive playback.