To solve the difficulty of traditional video monitoring system in system upgrade and expansion, an solution of embedded video monitoring system based on DaVinci technology was put forward in this paper. By building the monitoring platform by DM6437 and DSP/BIOS in the solution, TVP5151 was used for receiving video signal in PAL/NTSC formats, and an JPEG Baseline Profile Encoder was integrated for video encoding, and the 10/100M Ethernet transmission function was realized based on NDK. Finally, the system is tested and the result shows that the system can capture and transmit D1 format signal in 25f/s and met the real-time requirement. At the same time, the system is easy to use and expand with a bright application prospect.