FIRMWARE RELEASE NOTES ====================== Products affected: AXIS Q7406 Video Encoder Release date: 2010-05-31 Release type: Production Firmware version: 5.11 File name: Q7406_5_11.bin Preceding release: 5.01 AMC version: 5.8.5.2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. PTZ driver version 3.0 or later is neded. RELEASE 5.11 ============ New features in 5.11 since 5.01 ================================= 5.11:F01 Added embedded AVHS client. 5.11:F02 Added ONVIF support (Open Network Video Interface Forum) including metadata streaming over RTSP/RTP. This includes streaming of event data, PTZ position and status and analytics data. Dynamic web services discovery protocol as specified in ONVIF standard which follow WS-Discovery definitions (remote discovery will not be supported). 5.10:F03 Axis Camera Application Platform (ACAP) enabling third party developers (ADP partners) to develop, download and run their applications on the Axis camera. 5.11:F04 Support for license handling for third party applications in Axis Camera Application Platform. 5.11:F05 Support added for GLIBC giving full support for developing in C++ programming language. 5.11:F07 Zarlink and Broadcom status has been added to the server report. 5.11:F08 Daisy chain PTZ and Daisy chain HTTP supported in combination with Axis Q7900 rack Corrections in 5.11 since 5.01 ================================ 5.11:C01 Improvements has been made to increase sharpness in videoimages. 5.11:C02 Improvements has been made to get correct aspect ratios in videoimage snapshots. 5.11:C03 Improvements has been made to the tampering algorithm to avoid false alarms in varying lightning conditions. A new parameter "dark_threeshold" in Plain Config has been introduced to give more flexibility. 5.11:C04 Previous root password issue has been corrected to be available after a failed ftp flash_all FW upgrade or a factory default. Known limitations ================= 5.11:L01 It is not possible to use a space in the upload path for a ftp server. 5.11:L02 The NTP implementation will not synchronize to NTP servers that signal an alarm condition (clock not synchronized) in its Leap Indicator. 5.11:L03 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. 5.11:L04 Negative video X-offset values behaves like 0. Positive values moves the picture to the left when they are suppose to move it to the right. 5.11: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. 5.11:L06 It is not supported to configure always multicast RTP. 5.11:L07 Support for overlays other than full color have been disabled. 5.11:L08 Finding a scene where the difference between enabled and disabled backlight compensation is clearly visible is difficult. 5.11:L09 The image is neither mirrored nor rotated at Motion Detection page. 5.11:L10 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. 5.11:L11 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. 5.11:L12 Stream profile names are limited to alphanumerical characters. 5.11:L13 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. 5.11:L14 It is possible to start two simultaneous guardtours. Since there is no priority between guardtours there will be a race condition. 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. 5.11:L15 There are problems with PTZ when using java applet as viewer - the response may seem slow, the camera movements jerky and the zoom wide button does not zoom out fully. 5.11:L16 Setup of motion detection in a non-AMC environment does not work. 5.11:L17 Remote PTZ stops working on both server CPU and client CPU:s when disabling IPv4. Application Developer Information ================================= The AXIS Q7406 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 Q7406 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