The invention relates to the technical field of radio and television and specifically provides an audio/video recording method and system. According to the method and the system, the technical scheme is employed as follows: managing recording sources and recording format templates; integrating recording tasks of the same source and template issued by a recording system into subtasks of a first level recording task; and carrying out the first level recording task by a recording module. According to the method and the system, the problem that the same source is repeatedly recorded as same file formats and coding formats is solved. Moreover, data management is carried out on the recording tasks and recording files, any recording task can obtain feedback of a recording state and an index path of recording output.