The invention discloses a digital video camera with an optical fiber interface, which relates to the field of security. The digital video camera comprises an acquisition module, a video processing module, a coding module, an Ethernet communication module and an optical fiber communication module, wherein the optical fiber communication module is adopted to transmit video signals processed by the video processing module and video signals coded and compressed by the coding module to a monitoring terminal according to the optical fiber communication protocol; or the Ethernet communication module is adopted to transmit video signals coded and compressed by the coding module to the monitoring terminal according to the Ethernet communication protocol, and the optical fiber communication module is adopted to transmit video signals processed by the video processing module to the monitoring terminal according to the optical fiber communication protocol. Consequently, the invention can meet the application requirements of the storage and preview of network video monitoring data, and provides a platform for the development of the network video monitoring technology.