MiniCam 0.2.0-beta.1

MiniCam 0.2.0-beta.1

MiniCam 0.2.0-beta.1 adds archive playback speed controls and an in-app
diagnostics screen for single-camera installations.

What's new

• Archive playback speeds 1×, 2×, and 4× are available from the player
  toolbar.
• Accelerated playback requests the matching RTSP Scale directly from the
  camera on both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.
• A local RTSP bridge normalizes accelerated RTP timestamps and allows VLC to
  discard late frames, preventing accumulated video delay.
• The timeline keeps the selected speed across pause, resume, and archive seek.
• Acceleration preparation messages now appear over the video instead of the
  timeline.
• The new diagnostics screen reports the application, camera, playback,
  storage, and runtime state and can copy a privacy-safe report.

Download

Download MiniCam-0.2.0-beta.1-macos-universal.zip. The application is ad-hoc
signed but not notarized. Follow the first-launch instructions in the README to
approve MiniCam through macOS Privacy & Security without disabling Gatekeeper.

Use SHA256SUMS.txt to verify the downloaded archive if desired.

Verified configuration

• Universal arm64 and x86_64 MiniCam, VLCKit, and FFmpeg binaries.
• Native Apple Silicon playback and x86_64 playback through Rosetta.
• macOS Monterey 12 minimum deployment target.
• Hikvision DS-2CD2043G2-IU, channel 1, continuous H.264 recording to microSD.

Known limitations

• One camera and local-network access only.
• No Apple notarization.
• Accelerated playback depends on RTSP Scale support in the camera firmware.
• Other RTSP clients can exhaust the camera's session limit and cause error
  453 Not Enough Bandwidth, black video, or a failed export.
• Archive export may proceed close to real time.
• Motion analysis processes only archive data created while MiniCam is running.

See the README for installation, setup, privacy information, and troubleshooting.