FIRMWARE RELEASE NOTES
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Products affected: AXIS 209FD/209FD-R Network Camera

Release date:      2007-10-09

Release type:      Production

Firmware version:  4.44

File name:         209FD_444.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 4.44
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Added features
==============

4.44:F01 Support for the non-rugged version of the product, AXIS 209FD, has been
	 added. Note that this product does not include active tampering alarm 
	 feature.

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: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.

4.44: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.

4.44: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.

4.44: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/.

4.44: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.

4.44: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.

4.44:L10 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:L11 Storing multiple parameters simultaneously (with ACM) can trigger 
         unexpected behaviour. The workaround in most cases is to restart the
         camera.

4.44:L12 When switching the setting for exposure control from
         flicker-free 50Hz to auto the exposure control may fail to
         reinitialize. The workaround is either to change the scene in front
         of the camera or to restart the camera.


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

The AXIS VAPIX API - Application Programming Interface (available at www.axis.com)
is supported by the AXIS 209FD/209FD-R. 

The following groups are supported by the AXIS 209FD/209FD-R. 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
IP filter

Built in templates for dynamic parameters:

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
==========  ==========
640x480
480x360
352x288     1)
352x240     1)
320x240
240x180
176x144     1)
176x120     1)
160x120

1) Not equally scaled