FIRMWARE RELEASE NOTES
                                ======================

Products affected: AXIS 211M Network Camera

Release date:      2007-05-09

Release type:      Production

Firmware version:  4.40

File name:         211M_440.bin

Preceding release: n/a

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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 4.40
============

4.40 is the first official production release for the AXIS 211M.

Known limitations
=================

4.40: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.

4.40: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 256 kB.
         Workaround: Set the compression to 10% instead. The image quality will
         not suffer noticeably, but the image size will be much smaller.

4.40: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.

4.40:L04 Viewing full screen and sequencing through different external video
         sources with different video streams in a sequence will switch the
         full screen mode off.

4.40:L05 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.

4.40:L06 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.

4.40:L07 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/.

4.40:L08 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.

4.40:L09 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.

4.40:L10 Storing multiple parameters simultaneously (with ACM) can trigger 
         unexpected behaviour. One case of this is if the RTSP port is
         changed together with the RTSP server being enabled. The workaround
         in most cases is to restart the camera. 

4.40:L11 Simultaneous use of different video formats, e.g. 16:9 and other
         resolutions or a partial resolution with any other, or simultaneous
         use of normal and inverted video rotation, will cause the frame rate
         to drop. Note that motion detection always uses an uncropped
         video stream with the selected video default rotation. The image
         formats that can be used with motion detection enabled with no frame
         rate penalty due to this effect are 1280x1024, 1280x960, 1024x768,
         800x600, 720x576, 704x576, 640x480, 480x360, 352x288, 320x240,
         240x180, 176x144 and 160x120, when using the configured default
         rotation.

4.40:L12 Setting the AMC microphone volume slider to 0 may still allow some
         sound to be heard.  To completely mute the microphone use the
         'Mute microphone' button.

4.40:L13 Using the LiveView AMC downscale feature will reduce the image
         quality of the image diaplayed on the client. This is a client
         side effect and the images delivered from the AXIS 211M are not
         affected.

Application Developer Information
=================================

The AXIS VAPIX API - Application Programming Interface (available at
www.axis.com) is supported by the AXIS 211M. 

The following groups are supported by the AXIS 211M.  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
Motion Detection
I/O
IP filter
Audio

Built in templates for dynamic parameters:

Template         Group
========         =====
'event'          Event
'external_video' ExternalVideo
'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
'source'         Sequence.S0.Source
'tcpaction'      Event.E#.Actions
'tcp_config'     EventServers.TCP

Supported AXIS VAPIX API Image Resolutions:

Resolution  Exceptions
==========  ==========
1280x1024
1280x960    1)
1280x720    2)
1024x768    1)
1024x768_CROPONLY 3)
1024x576    2)
800x600     1)
800x600_CROP 4)
800x450     2)
720x576     1)
704x576     1)
640x480     1)
640x480_CROP 4)
640x360     2)
480x360     1)
480x270     2)
352x288     1)
320x240     1)
320x180     2)
240x180     1)
240x135     2)
176x144     1)
160x120     1)
160x90      2)

1) Not equally scaled
2) Verical crop to 16:9 aspect ratio
3) Vertical and horizontal crop, delivers 20 FPS in MJPEG
4) Vertical and horizontal crop to 900x675 then scaled to 800x600
   or 640x480, delivers 30 FPS in MJPEG