ISAPI Live View – IP camera & NVR viewer, no plugin

Watch Hikvision, Safire and other ISAPI CCTV cameras and NVR/DVR recorders without plugin: live, playback, MP4, PTZ. Mac & Windows.

Older IP cameras and NVR/DVR recorders show a blank live view in Chrome and Edge because they still ask for a legacy browser plugin (NPAPI/ActiveX) that modern browsers no longer run - and that never existed for Mac. ISAPI Live View replaces that empty box with a working viewer, using only the device's own ISAPI web interface. No plugin, no extra software, no cloud. FREE - Live grid of every camera connected to a recorder; click one to open it full size. - Fast snapshot video (around 10 fps on most recorders) or smooth MJPEG when the camera's sub-stream supports it. - Main / sub stream selector, full screen and one-click full-resolution snapshot. - Camera image also shown in the configuration pages (image, OSD, privacy mask, motion), following the selected channel. - Digital zoom on live and recorded video (mouse wheel, drag to pan, area zoom). - Motion overlay: see on the image which areas are moving, with the camera's detection area drawn on top. PRO (paid subscription) - Playback without plugin, H.264 and H.265/HEVC: pick camera and day, zoomable timeline (24 h down to 2 min) with events coloured by type - person, vehicle, line crossing or plain motion - and a filter to skip false alarms caused by light, shadows or rain. - Download recordings as standard MP4: an event, a segment, a custom range or the whole day, split into parts. - People and vehicle detection on live and recorded video, computed on your own computer: the video never leaves your browser. - Tools panel: live sharpness meter to focus cameras, optical zoom, focus, autofocus and lens initialisation, brightness / contrast / saturation / sharpness and day-night mode, disk and camera status, device restart (each function appears only if the device supports it). - PTZ control for motorized cameras: move, zoom, focus, presets; an active patrol is stopped when you take control and can be resumed. - Draw the motion-detection area on the image (grid editor) and save it with the page's own Save button. - One-click settings: video codec, time and NTP, motion detection for every camera. Pro costs EUR 4.99 per month or EUR 39 per year, taxes included, sold through Stripe (merchant of record). Cancel anytime. HOW IT WORKS Open your camera or recorder in the browser, log in as usual and go to Live View. The extension uses the session you already opened. It only runs on the device's own web pages (/doc/page/...) and talks only to that device; the Pro licence is checked once a day with our licence server, sending only the key. Interface in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Catalan (follows the browser language). Works on Windows, macOS and Linux. PRIVACY No analytics, no tracking. Camera images, recordings and credentials never leave your browser. COMPATIBILITY Tested with Hikvision IP cameras (firmware 5.4) and Safire NVRs (firmware 4.3). Other ISAPI-based devices with the same web interface usually work too. Some recorders only send whole recording files, so jumping far into a long recording can take a while. ISAPI Live View is an independent project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Hikvision, Safire or any other manufacturer. Brand names are used only to describe compatibility. Changing device settings is done at your own risk and requires an administrator account.