FIRMWARE RELEASE NOTES ====================== Products affected: AXIS 241S Video Server Release date: 2006-11-16 Release type: Production Firmware version: 4.40 File name: 241SB_440.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 4.40 ============ New features ============ 4.40:F01 Support for IPv6. 4.40:F02 Support for QoS. The product uses the DiffServ model and marks the following classes: Live Video, Event/Alarm and Management. 4.40:F03 Support for 802.1x/EAPOL(Extensible Authentication Protocol Over Lan) using EAP-TLS (EAP-Transport Layer Security). 4.40:F04 Added a parameter containing the path to the administrator web page (root.Properties.API.HTTP.AdminPath). 4.40:F05 Now possible to disable network services such as FTP, RTSP etc. See System Options | Support | System Overview for a list of the services that can be disabled. 4.40:F06 Added process list, /proc/netstat, ifconfig and vmstatus to the Server Report. 4.40:F07 A toolbar with a play and stop button is now available when using the Mozilla/Firefox browser. 4.40:F08 AXIS Media Control now has a reconnection strategy accessible from Control Panel on the Windows client. This allows the user to decide how the AMC client should handle a loss of connectivity with the product, i.e. for how long the product will try to reconnect and at which interval. 4.40:F09 Recording of MPEG4 streams to .asf file with the AXIS Media Control. This functionality is enabled in the Live View Config menu. For more info see also the AXIS Media Control user's manual, available at: http://www.axis.com/techsup/software/amc/index.htm. 4.40:F10 Now possible to configure the mail server's port (default 25). 4.40:F11 MPEG4 Stream Optimization, optimized for frame rate or bandwidth. This parameter can be set to frame rate to increase the frame rate by 30% in 4CIF resolution. This means that under normal conditions the maximum frame rate can be increased from 17 fps to 22 fps in PAL, and from 21 fps to 27 fps in NTSC. However, depending on the amount of motion, this will increase the required bandwidth for each frame (by 1-15% for each frame). Thus it is not recommended to combine frame rate optimization with bit rate limitation settings. Frame rate optimization has no effect when the resolution is set to lower than 4CIF, although there is a risk of increased bandwidth. In this case the parameter should be set to bandwidth. 4.40:F12 Added Areazoom. It is possible to draw an area in the Live View and zoom into it. This feature is only available for drivers which support absolute pan/tilt/zoom. 4.40:F13 Added settings of a time interval (or delay) between triggered events. In Triggered Event Type Setup, set min time interval between triggers is the minimum time period that the event must wait after a trigger before it will be possible to trigger it again. The interval starts as soon as the first trigger occurs. Note that, the shortest possible interval is 1 second and the longest is 23 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds. By default it is set to 00:00:00 which means no time interval. 4.40:F14 Added the possibility to schedule a Guardtour. From Event settings, choose to add a scheduled event. The guardtour will run as long as the event is active. If two scheduled guardtours overlap, the priority is given to the one scheduled to start first. The second scheduled guardtour will start when the first one is becoming inactive. Modifications ============= 4.40:M01 The view size buttons in Live View have been removed. 4.40:M02 Added Seoul in GMT+9 time zone. 4.40:M03 Reduced latency for I/O alarm trigger. 4.40:M04 PTZ: Added AXIS 295 joystick support. 4.40:M05 Allow having the same preset position name on different video sources. 4.40:M06 In Guard tour settings, a new parameter "Pause between runs" defines how long the Guard tour will pause before starting a new sequence. 4.40:M07 In Guard tour settings, view time and move speed have changed place. 4.40:M08 It is possible to set the time with a specific Time zone with VAPIX. The time is considered to be UTC and the offset is calculated by the product. The syntax is: http://ip/axis-cgi/admin/date.cgi?...&gmt= Corrections in 4.40 since 4.30 ============================== 4.40:C01 Improved event error handling, especially for motion detection. 4.40:C02 When an event failed to upload its images, it could happen that the buffer data was not removed from the file system, eventually causing a 'Cache Full'. At this point no more images could be uploaded. This issue has now been corrected. 4.40:C03 Corrected AXIS Media Control filter installation procedure on Windows systems using Windows Security Update (KB 896688). See the FAQ: http://www.axis.com/techsup/faq/index.php?id=63639 4.40:C04 The HTTP response is now correct when the time is set backwards using the VAPIX. 4.40:C05 It is now possible to use the 'force' option (param.cgi) in VAPIX. 4.40:C06 FTP login issue due to long signon message (longer than 256 chars) has been resolved. 4.40:C07 It is now possible to stream MPEG4 over HTTP using other port than 80. 4.40:C08 Improved stability of streaming MPEG4, when using QuicktTime, for certain product configurations (Internal info: IP number ending with two digits number). 4.40:C09 It is now possible to upgrade the product when NAT traversal functionality is enabled. 4.40:C10 In Guardtour settings, view time defines the time spent in a defined guardtour position. It is not needed to measure, and add the time for the motion of the controlled camera. 4.40:C11 Corrected RTC low voltage detection. When the battery was replaced, the system would continue claiming that the voltage was low. This is now corrected. 4.40:C12 Corrected problems when some PTZ setting will be reset to default after rebooting the unit. An instance of this error is reported in CST66115 (Device ID) 4.40:C13 Allow preset names including '&' characters. 4.40:C14 Some request to param.cgi did not answer a RFC compliant response when using responseformat=rfc. This is now corrected. 4.40:C15 Corrected Output monitoring. It is now possible to use the following VAPIX http request: http:///axis-cgi/io/output.cgi?monitor=1,2,... Known limitations in 4.40 ========================= 4.40:L01 The verification of event duration configuration contains limitations and will not disallow alphabetic characters. 4.40:L02 During an HTTP upload, unnecessary log messages may appear and files may be missing in the uploaded file sequence. 4.40:L03 Rotated video streams are not rotated in Motion Detection setup. 4.40: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 4.40: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. 4.40:L06 Motion detection windows are adjusted so that their width and height are divisible by 8 (pixels). 4.40: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. 4.40:L08 The Mozilla 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: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. 4.40: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. 4.40: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. 4.40: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. 4.40:L13 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. 4.40:L14 PTZ click in picture will not work when using the Java applet as the image viewer. Application Developer Information ================================= Supported HTTP 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 3) 176x144 1) 3) 176x120 2) 3) 1) Only available for PAL cameras 2) Only available for NTSC cameras 3) Not available for quad images 90/180/270 degress rotation is not supported for quad images. The Axis Video API, RTSP - Interface Specification found at www.axis.com is supported by the AXIS 241S. The following HTTP API groups are supported by the AXIS 241S. For more information please refer to the HTTP API specification version 2, available at www.axis.com. Group Exceptions ===== ========== General Image and Video PTZ Motion Detection I/O Serial port IP filter 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 'preset' PTZ.PresetPos 'preset_hidden' PTZ.PresetPos 'ptzaction' Event.E#.Actions 'smtpaction' Event.E#.Actions 'source' Sequence.S0.Source 'tcpaction' Event.E#.Actions 'tcp_config' EventServers.TCP