The embodiment of the invention discloses a video decoding test method and related equipment for solving the problem that in the prior art CPU resources will be occupied since software decoding is needed to test whether a handset supports hardware decoding. The method comprises the following steps: a server determines an identifier of a tested terminal; the server sends a hardware decoding test instruction according to the identifier of the tested terminal to the tested terminal; the server receives the a first result of the hardware decoding sent by the tested terminal, wherein the first result of the hardware decoding comprises a number of times S of starting playing of videos, a number of times E of ending playing of the videos and a number of times of video playing errors; and the server determines whether the C / S is smaller than a first threshold and / or the E / S is greater than a second threshold based on the first result of the hardware decoding; and if so, that the tested terminal supports hardware decoding of the videos is determined.