The invention discloses a method for carrying out video recording on video monitor and a network video recorder. The method comprises the following steps: receiving a recording instruction, wherein the recording instruction comprises correspondence relationship between channel number and window number; displaying a picture window according to the window display mode, wherein the displayed picture window comprises a background picture window and picture-in-picture windows, and displaying shortcut keys on a picture window interface; receiving a starting instruction, obtaining video data obtained from every angle in the same monitoring scene from at least two channels, decoding the video data, and displaying video stream obtained after decoding on the corresponding picture windows according to the correspondence relationship; storing the picture data displayed at present on a display screen; and receiving a lead-in instruction, reading recorded files from an external device, and binding and storing the read recorded files and the picture data displayed at present. According to the method for carrying out video recording on the video monitor and the network video recorder, multi-angle video recording can be realized, thereby improving safety and enabling recording operation to be more flexible and convenient.