This invention provides a video download method, apparatus, electronic device, and readable storage medium. The method includes: in response to detecting that a first video downloaded by a
client is interrupted due to
transcoding on the
server side, obtaining the download progress of the first video already downloaded by the
client; the download progress is used to indicate the amount of data downloaded and is associated with the identification information of the last downloaded video frame; based on the download progress, determining a set of segmented videos to be downloaded from a second video generated after
transcoding the first video, and downloading the set of segmented videos; matching the last downloaded video frame of the first video with the video frame content of the second video to determine the mapping time point corresponding to the last video frame in the second video; in response to playing to the last video frame of the first video, resuming playback of the second video from the mapping time point.