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Frame rate? Maximum bit rate? H265 is more demanding than H264. Do you see any improvement if you switch to H264?

Some more information would help. What cameras and how many? What bitrate have you allocated to them? What size are you recording at [2MP, 4MP, bigger?] What frame rate are you recording at? Are you recording continuously or only events? What codec are you using to compress the video [H264...

I'm actually using Safari v13.1 on High Sierra [Os 10.13.6]. Only a cable, a POE switch, the router and the dreaded iVMS-4200. I don't use an NVR. As @Dan points out from his exhaustive testing, nothing works. Occasionally, as with my DS-2CD2543G0-IS, a device does show up properly in Safari...

This would be an attractive solution but none of the user agents worked for me. I have one camera - DS-2CD2543G0-IS - [out of 8] which has always showed live feed and config previews in Safari but the rest are untouchables, even though they mostly have a more recent firmware update than the...

:) I know that Hikvision drive Mac optimists to jump off bridges but putting my corporate/commercial head on, I really think there's a chance that the recent trade embargo against Chinese security firms combined with the pandemic slowdown could force them finally into proper Mac support as a...

Good job, Dan. Would that give me any cause for hope that they will also roll it out to future camera FW updates so that they can be web-configured via a Mac browser? Or that they are now hungry enough for new business that they might actually produce a Mac version of iVMS-4200 which is fit for...

There are a few others on Youtube complaining of this same issue so it presumably affected at least a batch from the factory. Hivision have just sent me a firmware patch (v2.0.8_build200409) which cures it so that proves it was a fault. The link is to my copy of the file they sent me which I can...

Security Spy is vastly superior on a Mac but is also infinitely more expensive - prohibitively so if you have a lot of cameras. But it's free to try out. Unlike iVMS-4200… - it doesn't quit unexpectedly - it opens/quits very quickly [approx 50x quicker than iVMS-4200 to load and 300x quicker...

@Smokey, I have a couple of wireless cameras in non-critical situations and I like them for their flexibility and ease of use, especially in awkward locations. But I wouldn't recommend wireless for any serious monitoring - eg of burglars, children hurting themselves, etc - because there's always...

Welcome. You're brave buying from eBay where a lot of the offerings seem to be end-of-life old stock or imports of dubious provenance which may be difficult/impossible to update, hence the prices can look attractive. But hopefully yours came from a reliable UK supplier, even though your model...

Try creating a new group for any cameras not already in a group. Their feed might then show up in Main View.

I found the workaround. By importing the KD8003 into a new Group, it condescended to show up in Live View. It's presumably a bug or they wouldn't offer the option to add a device without creating a group for it.

Yesterday, following instructions from Hikvision, I reset one of my devices (DS-KD8003-IME1 video intercom door station) to default following a firmware upgrade and reactivated it with its new IP address. It now shows up as 'online' in iVMS-4200 both in MacOs and in Windows (running in emulation...

Hikvision UK tell me that the latest tested and approved FW for the 8003 door station is v2.0.8 build191029 and the latest for the indoor stations is v2.1.2 build191014. I'm not hearing any noise.

@riffraff55 are you opening SADP Tool while iVMS-4200 is open? Try closing the latter as SADP has a habit, especially on my Mac, of delivering a greyed-out zero when devices are being claimed by another app.

Hi Joe, there are very, very few cameras which can be run entirely on a Mac using the supplied software unless you opt for a baby monitor or a closed proprietary system such as Reolink offer. Their Mac software is free, elegant and stable as are their IOS and Android apps. But they don't produce...

Check out these options. You might also consider a simple wi-fi HDMI extender. Another option if you have an Android TV box is simply to install the Android version of your CCTV VMS on it, which you can probably get free from APKPure.com. You can also use Chromecast mirroring to relay the...