FIRMWARE RELEASE NOTES ====================== Products affected: AXIS 247S Video Server Release date: 2007-04-27 Release type: Production Firmware version: 4.42 File name: 247S_442.bin Preceding release: 4.41 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Important: The firmware has gone through limited testing procedure in the Quality Assurance lab. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 4.42 ============ Modifications in 4.42 since 4.41 ================================ 4.42:M01 The default resolution is changed to 4CIF instead of VGA. Corrections in 4.42 since 4.41 ============================== 4.42:C01 The overlay in images uploaded on events is updated correctly. 4.42:C02 The image dimensions for PAL 2CIF and 4CIF are now correct in the Resolution drop-down list on the Image Settings web page, even when Square Pixel Correction is enabled. Known limitations ================= 4.42:L01 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. 4.42:L02 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. 4.42:L03 If you have more than one IE window running the AXIS Media Control and audio enabled, you may experience a delay that increases over time in all but the topmost window. 4.42: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. 4.42: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. 4.42: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. 4.42: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/. 4.42: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. 4.42: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. Workaround: Restarting Mozilla solves these two problems. 4.42:L10 If the RTSP port is changed when the RTSP server is disabled, then "Unicast RTP" and "RTP over RTSP" will not work in AXIS Media Control 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. 4.42:L11 Storing multiple parameters simultaneously (with AXIS Camera Management) can trigger unexpected behaviour. Workaround: Restart the camera solves the problem in most cases. 4.42:L12 AXIS Media Control leaks memory on each reconnection attempt when streaming MPEG-4 with AAC. 4.42:L13 It is not possible to install AXIS Media Control when using Microsoft Windows Vista. 4.42:L14 When situated in an IPv6 network, AXIS Media Control does NOT support MPEG-4 stream connection types "Unicast RTP", "RTP over RTSP" and "Multicast RTP". Workaround: Use "RTP over RTSP over HTTP". 4.42:L15 If the video server's HTTP port is NOT set to 80, the code snippet that is generated when "MPEG-4 using AMC" is selected in "Live View Config" -> "HTML Examples" will be incorrect. Application Developer Information ================================= The AXIS VAPIX API - Application Programming Interface (available at www.axis.com) is supported by the AXIS 247S. The following groups are supported by the AXIS 247S. 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 I/O Motion Detection IP filter Audio Built in templates for dynamic parameters: 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.S#.Source 'tcpaction' Event.E#.Actions 'tcp_config' EventServers.TCP Supported AXIS VAPIX API Image Resolutions: Resolution Exceptions ========== ========== 4CIF 704x576 1) 704x528 1) 3) 704x480 2) 640x480 2) 3) VGA 640x480 2CIF 704x288 1) 704x264 1) 3) 704x240 2) 640x240 2) 3) CIF 384x288 1) 3) 352x288 1) 352x240 2) 320x240 2) 3) QVGA 320x240 QCIF 4) 192x144 1) 3) 4) 176x144 1) 4) 176x120 2) 4) 160x120 2) 3) 4) 1) Only available for PAL cameras 2) Only available for NTSC cameras 3) With square pixel correction enabled 4) Not available for quad images When input is a PAL signal, square pixel correction for full width resolutions are performed by scaling down vertically instead of scaling up horizontally.