Mining Sound and Image Recording Instrument (Mining Intrinsic Safety Type Video Recording Instrument) applies to record the sound and video image underground. The instrument, mainly used for underground hidden risk checking, production dispatching and commanding, emergency rescuing, etc is the only intrinsic safety type video recording instrument approved by MA center and available to be used underground in China. It adopts one key operation to compress the digital sound and video. The information could be brought to surface, connected to computer or TV through the synchro-wire for data collection, analysis and treatment, and replay the recording.