The invention relates to a multimedia content downloading method and device, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining a playing time point of multimedia content when a downloading operation for the multimedia content is detected; generating a multimedia content downloading request according to the playing time point; sending the multimedia content downloading request to a server so as to indicate the server to intercept an initial frame of a first multimedia content fragment corresponding to the playing time point to a last frame of the multimedia content according to the multimedia content downloading request, generating a second multimedia content fragment and returning the second multimedia content fragment to the terminal; storing a second multimedia content segment from the server, wherein the first multimedia segment is a multimedia segment obtained by splitting the multimedia content. According to the multimedia content downloading method and device, the storage space of the terminal can be saved, the multimedia content downloading speed can be increased, and the integrity of the downloaded second multimedia content fragment can be ensured.