FIRMWARE RELEASE NOTES
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Products affected: AXIS 223M Network Camera

Release date:      2006-12-21

Release type:      Production

Firmware version:  4.41

File name:         223M_4_41.bin

Preceding release: 4.40

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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 4.41
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Modifications
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4.40:M01 16 kHz audio sample rate is enabled.

Known limitations in 4.41
=========================

4.41:L01 The verification of event duration configuration contains limitations
         and will not disallow alphabetic characters.

4.41:L02 During an HTTP upload, unnecessary log messages may appear and files
         may be missing in the uploaded file sequence.

4.41:L03 Rotated video streams are not rotated in Motion Detection setup.

4.41:L04 When starting a new live view stream or when getting a still image,
         running live view streams and events will be stopped for a short while.

4.41:L05 Copying an event configuration does not work properly. Some parameters
         may not be copied correctly. Please verify each parameter value in the
         cloned event configuration.

4.41:L06 Motion detection windows are adjusted so that their width and height
         are divisible by 8 (pixels).

4.41:L07 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.

4.41:L08 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.

4.41:L09 Viewing full screen and sequencing through different external video
         sources with different video streams in a sequence will switch the full
         screen mode off.

4.41:L10 The AXIS Media Control may stop displaying the MPEG-4 stream after the
         screen saver has been active or the computer has been locked.
         Workaround: Reload the Live View page.

4.41:L11 If using dual screens and moving the AXIS Media Control window from one
         screen to the other, the MPEG-4 stream may stop updating.
         Workaround: Reload the Live View page.

4.41:L12 A snapshot image of the MPEG-4 stream will not be aspect ratio
         corrected when using the AXIS Media Control to take the snapshot image
         while aspect ratio correction is enabled.

4.41:L13 The text overlay in a 90/270 degree rotated widescreen image is
         absent in both MJPEG and MPEG-4.

4.41:L14 The maximum available resolution for MPEG-4 is 640x480 or 640x360
         depending on the selected resolution mode.

4.41:L15 Image overlay coordinates can only be changed by the administrator
         and applies to all open video streams.

4.41:L16 Placing the text overlay at the bottom of the image in 1600x900
         may result in a slight offset from the edge.

4.41:L17 If night mode has not first been triggered automatically, the IR-cut
         filter may have difficulties sensing the correct mode when switching
         from Off to Auto.

4.41:L18 Despite the MPEG-4 decoder already being installed, a notification
         about re-installation might appear on some computers.

4.41:L19 16 color BMP overlays must be horizontally divisable by 16.

Application Developer Information
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Supported AXIS VAPIX API Image Resolutions in Normal Mode:

Resolution  Exceptions
==========  ==========
1600x1200
1280x960
1024x768
800x600
768x576     1)
704x576     1) 2)
704x480        2)
704x288        2)
704x240        2)
640x480
480x360
384x288
352x288        2) 3)
352x240        2) 3)
320x240
240x180              4)
192x144
176x144        2) 3)
176x120        2) 3)
160x120

Supported AXIS VAPIX API Image Resolutions in Widescreen Mode:

Resolution  Exceptions
==========  ==========
1600x900             4)
1280x720
1024x576
800x450              4)
640x360
480x270              4)
320x180              4)
240x135              4)
160x90               4)

1) Not available as bitmap (bmp) image
2) Not equally scaled
3) No support for 90/270 degrees rotation
4) Width is reduced to the closest value divisable by 8 when rotated 90/270
   degrees

The AXIS VAPIX API, RTSP - Interface Specification found at www.axis.com is
supported by the AXIS 223M.

The following AXIS VAPIX API groups are supported by the AXIS 223M. For more
information please refer to the AXIS VAPIX API specification version 2,
available at www.axis.com.

Group             Exceptions
=====             ==========
General
Image and Video   Video status
Motion Detection
I/O
Serial port
IP filter
Audio

Built in templates for dynamic parameters are:

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