FIRMWARE RELEASE NOTES ====================== Products affected: AXIS Q7401 Video Encoder Release date: 2008-08-11 Release type: Production Firmware version: 5.01 File name: Q7401_5_01.bin AMC version: 5.4.17.4-3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS ==================== The firmware can be upgraded using Axis Camera Management 3.0, 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 5.01 ============ 5.01 is the first official production release for the AXIS Q7401. Known limitations ================= RELEASE 5.01 ============ 5.01 is the first official production release for the AXIS Q7401. Known limitations ================= 5.01:L01 It is not possible to use a space in the upload path for a ftp server. 5.01:L02 If IPv6 is enabled while IPv4 is disabled, the DHCP options received from IPv4 are not removed. Also there is no IPv6 address in the mail body of an SMTP test mail. 5.01:L03 The NTP implementation will not synchronize to NTP servers that signal an alarm condition (clock not synchronized) in its Leap Indicator. 5.01:L04 After changing the date/time of the camera, the video stream will stop after 60 seconds with an RTSP session time out. It does not matter if the media stream is started before or after the time is changed. Workaround: Reboot the camera after the time has been changed manually or by NTP. 5.01:L05 If an image overlay is placed at 0,0 and a text overlay is top aligned, the image overlay will be placed below the text with no cropping. 5.01:L06 Previous root password is not available after a failed ftp flash_all FW upgrade or a factory default. 5.01:L07 It is not supported to configure always multicast RTP. 5.01:L08 Support for overlays other than full color have been disabled. 5.01:L09 Setup of motion detection in a non-AMC environment does not work. 5.01:L10 If RTSP authentication is switched off, streaming H.264 with QuickTime and other Apple compatible clients will not work as they require authentication of the RTSP, but do not allow HTTP authentication. 5.01:L11 There is a difference between JPEG and H264 overlays and snapshots when aspect ratio correction is enabled. 5.01:L12 The image is neither mirrored nor rotated at Motion Detection page. 5.01:L13 The AXIS Media Control client may stop displaying the H.264 video stream after the PC has been locked. Workaround: Reload the Live View page. 5.01:L14 AXIS Media Control may on some client computers buffer up images which may lead to latency and use of memory. Stopping the streams will restore the memory. Workaround: The max buffer size in the AXIS Media Control can be decreased to stop that much memory from beeing allocated. 5.01:L15 A recording from AXIS Media Control sometimes gets a invalid file length written in the file header when the disk is full. Except the header file length, the file data should be correct. 5.01:L16 Stream profile names are limited to alphanumerical characters. 5.01:L17 If a tab or window with a runnning MJPEG stream is closed in Firefox 3 the stream will still be running in the background. The stream is not closed until Firefox is terminated. 5.01:L18 When using Mozilla Firefox to view MJPEG, a line might appear in the bottom half of the image when there is a lot of movement. 5.01:L19 The combination of MJPEG, AAC and multipart is not supported. 5.01:L20 We do not support full duplex for audio. 5.01:L21 With Safari on Mac OS X Leopard G711 audio stream will be very choppy. 5.01:L22 If the disk becomes full, is unmounted or the power to the device is lost during an active storage recording, the ongoing recording may be lost or made non-seekable. 5.01:L23 If there are many recordings on a SD card in the unit, then the FPS will become low (12-28 fps) and the video will stutter while the recordings are being read, i.e. when the card is mounted. 5.01:L24 Negative video offset values behaves like 0. Positive values moves the picture to the left when they are suppose to move it to the right. 5.01:L25 A new functionality has been added enabling the serial port to be configured as RS485 2-wire, 4-wire or RS422 thus allowing several PTZ drivers previously only used with RS232. However there is a delay between the RTS and TXD signal, but no consequences of this have been found. 5.01:L26 It is possible to start two simultaneous guardtours without priority. The case were one guardtour is first started by the event system and then a second one is started is still handled. In this case the event that started first will run until it is shutdown and if the other event is still active that guardtour will start to run. 5.01:L27 There are problems with PTZ when using java applet as viewer - the response may seem slow and the zoom wide button does not zoom out fully. Application Developer Information ================================= The AXIS Q7401 supports AXIS VAPIX API - Application Programming Interface version 3 which has not been published yet. Backwards compatibility is maintained as far as possible, but some changes have been necessary. The following groups are still supported from the AXIS Q7401 from AXIS VAPIX HTTP API specification version 2, but discrepancies may occur. For more information about version 2 please refer to AXIS VAPIX API 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 'ftpaction' Event.E#.Actions 'ftp_config' EventServers.FTP 'httpaction' Event.E#.Actions 'http_config' EventServers.HTTP 'hwaction' Event.E#.Actions 'motion' Motion 'ptzaction' Event.E#.Actions 'smtpaction' Event.E#.Actions 'tcpaction' Event.E#.Actions 'tcp_config' EventServers.TCP Supported AXIS VAPIX API Image Resolutions Resolution Exceptions ========== ========== D1 720x576 1) 720x480 2) 4CIF 704x576 1) 704x480 2) 2CIF 704x288 1) 704x240 2) CIF 352x288 1) 352x240 2) QCIF 176x288 1) 176x240 2) 1) Only available for PAL cameras 2) Only available for NTSC cameras