FIRMWARE RELEASE NOTES ====================== Products affected: AXIS 242S IV Video Server Release date: 2007-02-27 Release type: Production Firmware version: 4.31 File name: 242SIV_4_31.bin Preceding release: 4.30 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 4.31 ============ Modifications ============= 4.31:M01 Minor changes to Intelligent Video webpages. 4.31:M02 Failure to start a DSP application without a valid license will now also generate some feedback in the syslog. Corrections in 4.31 since 4.30 ============================== 4.31:C01 When a running DSP application was trying to register new parameters over the Param API from the Intelligent Video SDK, it could fail. Specially when registering many parameters with long names/values. This is now corrected. 4.31:C02 Major bug corrected in the output monitor CGI. This CGI is used to get status information about the IO ports. Specially the client software, AXIS Camera Station use this CGI to trigger events and video recordings. Known limitations in 4.31 ========================= 4.31:L01 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. 4.31:L02 Motion detection windows are adjusted so that their width and height are divisible by 8 (pixels). 4.31:L03 When saving a snapshot image, some browsers (e.g. Mozilla) will fetch a new picture and the saved picture will not match the displayed snapshot. 4.31:L04 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. 4.31:L05 The text overlay in a 90/270 degree rotated NTSC image is garbled in both MJPEG and MPEG-4 when the image width is not evenly divisible by 16. 4.31:L06 Including format field #b or #B in text overlay will show incorrect bandwidth usage when frame rate is limited for Motion JPEG. 4.31:L07 Starting an IV module from the webinterface at the AXIS 242S IV may in rare cases failure. The user will be notified about the problem with an "internal error" message. The solution to the problem is to simply try start the IV module again. Application Developer Information ================================= AXIS VAPIX API - Application Programming Interface (available at www.axis.com) is supported by AXIS 242S IV. The following groups are supported by the AXIS 242S IV. 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 PTZ Motion Detection I/O IP filter Serial port 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 'tcpaction' Event.E#.Actions 'tcp_config' EventServers.TCP 'ptzaction' Event.E#.Actions 'smtpaction' Event.E#.Actions 'motion' Motion 'preset' PTZ.PresetPos 'preset_hidden' PTZ.PresetPos 'button' PTZ.Auxiliary.A#.Button 'user_ctlqueue' PTZ.UserCtlQueue 'guardtour' GuardTour 'tour' GuardTour.G#.Tour 'sequence' Sequence 'source' Sequence.S0.Source 'external_video' ExternalVideo Supported AXIS VAPIX API Image Resolutions: Resolution Exceptions ========== ========== 4CIF 704x576 1) 704x480 2) 2CIFEXP 704x288x2 1) 704x480x2 2) 2CIF 704x288 1) 704x240 2) CIF 352x288 1) 352x240 2) QCIF 176x144 1) 176x120 2) 1) Only available for PAL cameras 2) Only available for NTSC cameras