Abstract: The present disclosure provides a video decoding method, a video decoding device, a hardware decoder, and a storage medium. The method comprises: decoding a target slice of a to-be-decoded video; determining coding blocks that need to be restored in a frame where the target slice is located, when detecting occurrence of an error to a syntax element of the target slice; and restoring the coding blocks that need to be restored based on a global preset syntax element template, so as to perform forced decoding of the target slice.