FIRMWARE RELEASE NOTES ====================== Products affected: AXIS P3304 Fixed Dome Network Camera Release date: 2010-10-29 Release type: Production Firmware version: 5.20 File name: P3304_5_20.bin Preceding release: 5.12 AMC version: 5.8.5.5-3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS ==================== The firmware can be upgraded using Axis Camera Management, 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 5.20 New features ============ 5.20:F01 Added ONVIF (Open Network Video Interface Forum) support. ============ Corrections since 5.12 ================================ 5.20:C01 Improvements has been made to increase video image sharpness. 5.20:C02 Improvements has been made to get correct aspect ratios in video image snapshots. 5.20:C03 Improvements has been made to the tampering algorithm to avoid false alarms in varying lightning conditions. A new parameter "DarkThreshold" in Plain Config has been introduced to give the user more flexibility. 5.20:C04 Previous root password issue has been corrected to be available after a failed ftp flash_all FW upgrade or a factory default. 5.20:C05 Improvements to the system log have been made. 5.20:C06 Corrected problem where repositioning of the privacy mask in Firefox caused the mask to lag behind. 5.20:C07 Corrected problem with leading spaces in email address that otherwise could cause send failure. 5.20:C08 Correction of issue causing server report containing unrelevant HTML code when downloading crash report. Known limitations ================= 5.12:L01 If the status LED is set to flash when a video stream is accessed, the flashing stops after an AVHS dispatch. The flashing begins again if a new stream is accessed (e.g. if the live view is reloaded). 5.12:L02 Streaming of MJPEG over rtsp sometimes does not work for resolutions higher than 1024x768 in windows media player and mplayer. Workaround: Use VLC instead http://www.videolan.org/. 5.12:L03 Multicast for ipv6 will only work if ipv4 is enabled. 5.12:L04 It is not possible to transmit audio to the camera when using http multipart. 5.12:L05 Application upload does not work when using Google Chrome. Application Developer Information ================================= The AXIS VAPIX Application Programming Interface version3 is supported by AXIS P3304. The following groups are supported by P3304. For more information, please refer to the AXIS VAPIX HTTP API specification version 3, part of the AXIS VAPIX API, available at www.axis.com. Group Exceptions ===== ========== General Image and Video Video status Motion Detection I/O IP filter Audio PTZ PTZ driver update PTZ administation Set PTZ parameters PTZ control queue Built in templates for dynamic parameters are: Template Group ======== ===== 'button' PTZ.Auxiliary.A1.Button 'customexposurewindow' ImageSource.I#.Sensor 'event' Event 'ftpaction' Event.E#.Actions 'ftp_config' EventServers.FTP 'guardtour' GuardTour 'guardtouraction' Event.E#.Actions 'httpaction' Event.E#.Actions 'http_config' EventServers.HTTP 'hwaction' Event.E#.Actions 'motion' Motion 'position' PTZ.Preset.P0.Position 'ptzaction' Event.E#.Actions 'smtpaction' Event.E#.Actions 'streamcache' StreamCache 'streamprofile' StreamProfile 'tcpaction' Event.E#.Actions 'tcp_config' Eventservers.TCP 'tour' GuardTour.G#.Tour Supported AXIS VAPIX API Image Resolutions for P3304 Resolution Exceptions ========== ========== 1280x800 1280x720 1024x768 1024x640 800x600 800x500 800x450 640x480 640x400 640x360 480x360 480x300 480x270 320x240 320x200 320x180 240x180 176x144 160x120 160x100 160x90 1440x900 1) 768x576 1) 704x576 1) 704x480 1) 704x240 1) 384x288 1) 352x288 1) 352x240 1) 192x144 1) 176x120 1) 1) Not visible in web user interface