Video decoding method and device, equipment and storage medium

The invention discloses a video decoding method and device, equipment and a storage medium, and the method comprises the steps: creating a soft decoding background thread and a hard decoding background thread at the same time, decoding a pre-built test video, and recording a decoding result of the test video; and selecting the corresponding decoding mode to decode the to-be-decoded video according to the decoding result, thereby improving the technical problem of low video decoding efficiency due to the fact that a user needs to manually select a soft decoding mode or a hard decoding mode in a video playing initialization stage in the prior art. 本申请公开了一种视频解码方法、装置、设备和存储介质，方法包括：同时创建软解码和硬解码两个后台线程对预先内置的测试视频进行解码，并记录测试视频的解码结果；根据解码结果选择相应的解码方式对待解码视频进行解码，改善了现有技术在视频播放初始化阶段需要由用户手动选择软解码方式或者硬解码方式，存在视频解码效率低的技术问题。