Playback & timeline

NVR plays everything in the browser — live cameras and recorded footage — with no plugin to install and nothing leaving your network. Open http://localhost:8085 (or your server’s address) and sign in.

The live grid#

The home view is a grid of every camera. To keep many cameras smooth, each tile shows the camera’s low-resolution sub stream; the moment you click a tile to focus it, NVR switches that camera to the full-resolution main stream. That tiered approach is what lets a single box show 16+ cameras at once without melting.

The NVR live grid showing 16 camera tiles of an industrial site, with a camera count and system health indicators in the header. — The live grid — every camera at a glance. Click any tile to focus it in full resolution.

Scrubbing the timeline#

The Playback view is for going back in time. Pick a camera and a moment, and drag along the timeline to scrub — seeking is instant because NVR scrubs the lightweight recorded sub stream and only fetches full-resolution frames when you pause on the instant you want. From here you can switch between Fast (quick, low-res seeking) and full-quality playback, jump back to Live, and grab a snapshot or download a clip.

The NVR playback view showing a single focused camera with a date picker, quality controls, and a timeline for scrubbing recorded footage. — Playback — choose a camera, scrub the timeline, and switch between fast and full-quality streams.

Browser support#

Cameras in this fleet stream H.265 (HEVC), decoded natively by the browser. That works in:

Safari — always.
Chrome 107+ and Edge on a Mac (hardware decode).

If a browser reports no HEVC support, NVR shows a clear message rather than a black tile. On an iPhone, Safari falls back to native HLS automatically.