Along with the multimedia technological development and the large-scale database widespread application, the content video retrieval technology obtains the rapid development, at the same time, the algorithms were also proposed. This article has carried on the induction summary to these new theory technologies based on the content video retrieval demonstration system. This article first introduced based on the content video retrieval essential technology including regards the lens the boundary examination and the division, the essential frame selection the characteristic withdraws, the similar match and the video frequency gathers the kind and so on. Simultaneously provided video frequency retrieval essential technology some algorithms,and carried on the summary regarding the recent years based on the content.