If you have recently purchased a budget-friendly USB microscope, endoscope, or a generic webcam from online marketplaces, you may have come across a CD or a download link labeled "soft.hvscam".
You can obtain the software through the official site or the Microsoft Store. Via soft.hvscam.com (Recommended for Win 7) Visit: Go to soft.hvscam.com or hvscam.com/soft.asp.
Microsoft Store: Users on Windows 10 or Windows 11 can find the official hiView app in the Microsoft Store for a more secure and streamlined installation.
Capture Tools: Dedicated buttons for taking high-quality photos and recording video (AVI format at 30fps).
Many industrial monitoring apps (written for Windows 7) only accept DirectShow cameras. Modern IP cameras do not work. Soft.HVSCam acts as a bridge: Convert your modern RTSP stream to a DirectShow-compatible virtual device, resurrecting old but critical software.
Standard virtual cameras often produce lag or frame dropping because they use basic MJPEG compression. The "HVS" protocol in Soft.HVSCam employs temporal predictive coding and GPU-accelerated scaling. This results in: