FIRMWARE RELEASE NOTES ====================== Products affected: AXIS 207W Video Camera Release date: 2010-01-25 Release type: Production Firmware version: 4.44.1 File name: 207MW_4_44_1.bin Preceding release: 4.44 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS ==================== The firmware can be upgraded using Axis Camera Management 2.0, HTTP or FTP. Please follow the instructions from the user's manual, the web page at http://www.axis.com/techsup/cam_servers/how_to_upgrade.htm or the file named howtoupgrade.txt. RELEASE 4.44.1 ============== Corrections in 4.44.1 since 4.44 ================================ 4.44:C01 Improved stability for the wireless network handling and connecting with WEP/WPA/WPA-2 encryption methods. Known limitations ================= 4.44:L01 If you choose to rotate the image in the Video & Image setup, be aware that the coordinates for motion detection windows created in the Motion Detection setup will not be rotated. Workaround: When defining motion detection windows, temporarily configure the image for 0 degrees of rotation. Change back to the desired rotation again after having defined the motion windows. 4.44:L02 If you set compression to 0% the frame rate may decrease substantially for Motion JPEG for certain scenes. This is because the image size may not exceed 128 KB. Workaround: Set the compression to 5% instead. The image quality will not suffer noticeably, but the image size will be much smaller. 4.44:L03 Including format field #r, #R, #b or #B in the text overlay will show an incorrect frame rate and bandwidth usage when the frame rate is limited for Motion JPEG. 4.44:L05 Viewing full screen and sequencing through different external video sources with different video streams in a sequence will switch the full screen mode off. 4.44:L06 The AXIS Media Control may stop displaying the MPEG-4 stream after the screensaver has been active, or when the computer has been locked. Workaround: Reload the Live View page. 4.44:L07 Using dual screens and moving the AXIS Media Control window from one screen to the other can result in unexpected behavior. Workaround: Reload the Live View page. 4.44:L08 If viewing the image stream on Mac OS X with Mozilla Firefox using the AXIS Media Java Applet, a third party plug-in may be needed to get the browser to use the correct Java version. The Java Embedding Plug-in can be found at http://javaplugin.sourceforge.net/. 4.44:L09 When saving a snapshot image, some Web browsers (e.g. Mozilla) will fetch a new picture and the saved picture will not match the displayed snapshot. 4.44:L10 The Mozilla Web browser does not always close the image stream properly when leaving the Live View page. Restarting the stream can sometimes fail as well. Restarting Mozilla solves these two problems. 4.44:L11 If the RTSP port is changed when the RTSP server is disabled, then "Unicast RTP" and "RTP over RTSP" will not work in AMC when the RTSP server is enabled again ("RTP over RTSP over HTTP" will however work). Workaround: Disable the RTSP server and then re-enable it again. 4.44:L12 Storing multiple parameters simultaneously (with ACM) can trigger unexpected behaviour. The workaround in most cases is to restart the camera. 4.44:L13 When retrieving two (or more) video streams with differing rotations, some frames may be of incorrect rotation. 4.44:L14 During http upload the using "+" sign in custom parameter will cause no notification to be sent. 4.44:L15 Using special characters in basefilename during http upload might cause strange filenames on the uploaded file. "+" sign will be translated to space. 4.44:L16 When enabling HTTPS, restarting the camera and entering http://ip the camera will not redirect to https://ip but one must enter this explicitly. 4.44:L17 No notification of ip-address change will be received when restarting using an ipv6 address. 4.44:L18 In an ad-hoc network with more than one camera, after a powerfail in the network the cameras might not automatically merge into a single network when power is recovered. 4.44:L19 Sound might be distorted when having two live views on the same computer using MPEG4 with Audio encoding AAC and Multicast/Unicast RTP. 4.44:L20 Using DHCP for both wired and wireless network can cause delays when switching between wired and wireless if used in a very heavily loaded wireless network environment. If these kind of problems appear please try using a less loaded accesspoint. 4.44:L22 Using filenames like "!"#%&(()).jpg" in basefilename for triggered http upload can cause folders to be created instead of uploaded files. Application Developer Information ================================= The AXIS VAPIX API - Application Programming Interface (available at www.axis.com) is supported by the AXIS 207W. The following groups are supported by the AXIS 207W. For more information, please refer to the AXIS VAPIX HTTP API specification version 2, part of the AXIS VAPIX API, available at www.axis.com Group Exceptions ===== ========== General Image and Video Video status, Bitmap, Image overlay Motion Detection I/O IP filter Audio Built in templates for dynamic parameters are: Template Group ======== ===== 'event' Event 'ftpaction' Event.E#.Actions 'ftp_config' EventServers.FTP 'httpaction' Event.E#.Actions 'http_config' EventServers.HTTP 'hwaction' Event.E#.Actions 'motion' Motion 'smtpaction' Event.E#.Actions 'tcpaction' Event.E#.Actions 'tcp_config' EventServers.TCP Supported AXIS VAPIX API Image Resolutions: Resolution Exceptions ========== ========== 1280x1024 1280x960 1) 1280x720 640x480 1) 640x360 480x360 1) 480x270 352x288 1) 320x240 1) 320x180 240x180 1) 240x135 176x144 1) 160x120 1) 160x90 1) Not equally scaled