The invention discloses a registration method and equipment for terminal equipment, which are applied to a video monitoring system. The terminal equipment is taken as a multicast source, a VM (Video Management) is taken as a multicast group member, a multicast address is configured on the terminal equipment, and a registration request can be sent in a multicast mode according to the multicast address when the terminal equipment is initialized, so that the multicast group member VM responds to the registration request; a multicast technology and an anycast technology are adopted, the terminal equipment is taken as a multicast source, the VM is taken as a multicast group member, an anycast address is configured on the VM, a multicast address is configured on the terminal equipment, the anycast address can be obtained by sending an address inquiry request in a multicast mode according to the multicast address when the terminal equipment is initialized, and a registration request is sent according to the anycast address, so that the multicast group member VM responds to the registration request; and a multicast technology is adopted, the terminal equipment is taken as a multicast group member, and the VM is taken as a multicast source, so that automatic registration of the terminal equipment is realized.