FIRMWARE RELEASE NOTES ====================== Products affected: AXIS 216FD Network Camera Release date: 2007-05-14 Release type: Service Firmware version: 4.40.1 File name: 216FD_4_40_1.bin Preceding release: 4.40 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 4.40.1 ============== Corrections in 4.40.1 since 4.40 ================================ 4.40.1:C01 Improved MPEG-4 overall stability. New clients were sometimes denied access to a stream. 4.40.1:C02 MPEG-4 streaming no longer stops after 25 days. 4.40.1:C03 BMP images are no longer corrupted intermittently. 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 128 KB. Workaround: Set the compression to 5% instead. The image quality will not suffer noticeably, but the image size will be much smaller. 4.40: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 If you have more than one IE window open running the AXIS Media Control and audio enabled, you may experience a delay that increases over time in all but the topmost window. 4.40: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. 4.40:L06 The AXIS Media Control may stop displaying the MPEG-4 stream after the screen saver has been active, or when the computer has been locked. Workaround: Reload the Live View page. 4.40: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. 4.40:L08 The Axis Media Control should reload itself on audio configuration changes on server. Sometimes it does not. Workaround: Reload the Live View page. 4.40:L09 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:L10 Audio will not be available when using the AXIS Media Java Applet as viewer. 4.40:L11 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:L12 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:L13 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. Application Developer Information ================================= The AXIS VAPIX API - Application Programming Interface - found at www.axis.com is supported by the AXIS 216FD. The following groups are supported by the AXIS 216FD. 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, Image overlay Motion Detection I/O 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 ========== ========== 640x480 480x360 352x288 1) 320x240 240x180 176x144 1) 160x120 1) Not equally scaled