The invention relates to a flat-panel television remote control technology, discloses a camera-based flat-panel television remote control system and a method. The invention solves the problems that aflat-panel television remote control scheme in the prior art is limited in use, cannot quickly complete large-span jump operation and is high in cost. The system comprises a display screen module, a camera module, a movement module, a power supply module, a remote control receiving module and a remote control transmitting module, a lens of the camera module faces the direction of a user and is used for continuously shooting images moved by the remote control transmitting module; the movement module is used for determining the cursor position on the display screen module according to the movingimage of the remote control transmitting module and synchronously displaying the cursor position on the display screen module; the remote control transmitting module sends a remote control operationinstruction to the remote control receiving module according to operation of a user, and the machine core module executes a menu action corresponding to the current cursor position on the display screen module according to the remote control operation instruction.