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Products affected: AXIS 206 rev2 Network Camera

Release date:      2006-03-20

Release type:      Release Candidate

Firmware version:  4.38

File name:         axis206rev2.bin

Preceding release: None

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UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS
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The firmware can be upgraded using Axis Camera Management 2.0, HTTP or FTP.
Please follow the instruction from the user manual, web page or the file
named howtoupgrade.txt


RELEASE 4.38
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4.38 is the first official production release for the AXIS 206 rev2.

Known limitations in 4.38
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4.38:1  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.

4.38:2  Including format field #b or #B in text overlay will show incorrect
        bandwidth usage when frame rate is limited for Motion JPEG.

4.38:3 The view size buttons in Live View will not work if you are viewing via
        the QuickTime plugin.

4.38:4 If viewing the image stream on Mac OS X with Mozilla Firefox or Camino
        using the AXIS Media Java Applet, a third party plugin may be needed to
        get the browser to use the correct Java version. The Java Embedding
        Plugin can be found at http://javaplugin.sourceforge.net/.

4.38:5 The AXIS Media Control toolbar is not available when using the Mozilla
        Firefox and Netscape Web browsers. This is because images are viewed
        with server push instead of ActiveX (AXIS Media Control).

4.38:6 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.

4.38:7 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.

Known problems in 4.38
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4.38:8 When using DDNS (Windows Server 2003), the link local address is 
	registered in the DNS, not the real IP-address.

4.38:9 If primary dns-server is online but the DNS service is unavailable 
	(e.g a standard Windows XP machine was set as primary dns server by 
	mistake), the secondary dns server is never contacted.

4.38:10 The DDNS (Windows server 2003) is not updated when the IP-address of 
	the DUT changes.

4.38:11 When the DUT:s IP is changed, the change does not show in i.e 
	IP-utility.

4.38:12 An error on live view page with AMC as default viewer (java and still 
	image does not produce this error).

4.38:13 The second option in the drop down list "Specify date format" is 
	"Www Mmm D YYYY". Should be "Www Mmm DD YYYY". If the option is 
	selected it's displayed correctly in for example text overlay.


4.38:14 Change HTTP port in Advanced network settings, go to HTML examples and 
	view the code. The code displayed in HTML Examples does not refere to 
	the new port, results in no video stream.

Application Developer Information
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Supported AXIS VAPIX API Image Resolutions

Resolution  Exceptions
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640x480
640x360
320x240
160x120

The AXIS VAPIX API - Application Programming Interface - found at www.axis.com
is supported by the AXIS 206 rev2. 

The following groups are supported by the AXIS 206 rev2.  Fore 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