Firmware 5.821 Release Note 2005/07/01 [New/Modified Features] 1. Suport POS function 2. When the firmware prompt users to format a hard disk, users can use OK or Cancel button on the IR controler to answer the question. 3. Support low-bandwidth connections. We use the second encoder to produce video stream for all network connections of the same camera. [Bug Fixed] 1. Fix a security problem on getcfig.htm that causes this page can be accessed without an administrator's account. 2. Fix an error on the web page of NICECAM MD-1000 and Pelco (D) and Pelco (P) PTZ protocol. 3. If the video loss events were frequently triggered, the e-mail notification will send a mail for incorrect camera. 4. Fix a bug in ptzdef. The PTZ will not work if more than one command like send=xxx were in the same line. 5. Fix a bug in gwmkdisk that can not load more than 3 disks. 6. Fix a security issue by let users get system setup web pages without an administrator's password. 7. A false motion detection alarm will be triggered at the 15th second of a hour. This problem can be easily detected if the recorde schdule uses motion detection to record all the cameras. 8. Fix a bug which causes VPON reboot while setting motion-detection in GUI mode and sending snapshot request from web. 9. DVD backup would be failed if another USB disk or IDE CD-RW is installed. 10. If only DNS was modified in the TCP/IP settings, it will not be updated. 11. In the Revise Firmware menu item, if there's no partition table on the external disk, says USB disk, the firmware can not find system files on the disk. For example: Sony USM128B, USM128A 12. If there are too many files in disks, VPON could not start properly. It may reboot continuously. [Known Problem] 1. Compression Boost, and playback step backward are now not availble for MPEG4. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Firmware 5.820 Release Note 2004/08/31 [New/Modified Features] 1. Add MPEG4 Codec, providing more smaller data rate and faster frame rate ( vs. H.263 ) and better video quality. [Bug Fixed] [Known Problem] 1. Pre-Alarm, Compression Boost, and playback step backward are now not availble for MPEG4. 2. NPPLAYER doesnot support .NW4 file(recorded by Live Video ActiveX) playback. 3. VP-404(8), 320x240 JPEG=80fps, H.263=35fps; If MD are all turned on, JPEG=60fps, H.263=30fps. VP-416, 320x240 JPEG=120fps, H.263=67fps; If MD are all turned on, JPEG=118fps, H.263=55fps. 4. JPEG 320x240, Pre-Alarm all set to 300 frames. If all 16 cameras are triggered at the same time, the local display will be paused for about 1 second. This is the worst case. 5. IE5.0 SP3 view video without plugin , using Java Plugin 1.4.1 will have problem when changing page1 / page2, no image will be displayed. Using the embedded JVM of IE won't have this problem. 6. After installing Plugin 2.98, an error message will be displayed after closing live video window in Netscape. You can just ignore it. 7. In 640x480 mode, sometimes, there will be some video error on the bottom of the snapshot image. 8. In 640x480 and GUI mode, entering motion-detection setting page may cause system reboot. 9. There's some duplicated PTZ control in GUI and OSD mode. 10. If one of the following conditions is true, users may not read backup data on a DVD: a. The size of backup data is larger than 1GB. b. The user uses a DVD+R not a DVD+RW to backup data. c. The dvd reader (DVD-ROM, DVD+RW drive) does not support multisession disc. d. Use Windows 98 or ME to browse the disc. Conclusion If you want to successfully read a dvd: a. Use a DVD+RW disc to save data, don't use a DVD+R disc. b. Use Windows 2000 or Windows XP to browse the disc. Upgrading Windows 2000 to Service Pack 4 is high recommended. 11. Do not support USB DVD Backup, IDE DVD Backup is OK. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Firmware 5.802B1 Release Note 2003/12/29 [New/Modified Features] 1. Support overlayed bitmap on osd and compressed video. The purpose of this function is to display non-English words on osd. You can use OverlayTextGenerator.exe to create bitmaps and upload bitmaps to VPON. 2. Page number on the upper left corner has been removed. Please use overlayed text for each camera instead. 3. Support at most 300 motion-detection areas. [Bug Fixed] 1. Only administrator and super user can listen to audio on the web page but the extended user accounts can not. 2. The result of watermark checking is always failure. [Known Problem] 1. After installing Plugin 2.98, an error message will be displayed after closing live video window in Netscape. You can just ignore it. 2. The follow functions that are in OSD mode are not implemented in GUI mode yet: a. Search by event. b. Backup 3. In 640x480 and GUI mode, entering motion-detection setting page may cause system reboot. 4. There's some duplicated PTZ control in GUI and OSD mode. 5. Some video may be lost after rebooting system. If this was happened, rebooting VP-580 can recover these video. 6. In GUI mode, if user backup data to CD-RW drive, remote video will be stopped. After the burning proceess had finished, remote video will be back. 7. For PAL cameras. there will be some black lone on the left and right edge of the video. 8. Horizional mirror has no effect on local video but it works on remote video and recorded video. This is a hardware limitation. 9. In GUI mode, overlay text can not be displayed on the video. 10. In GUI mode, motion detection diagram does not display when play video files. 11. In OSD mode, the resolution of TV is 800x600 but the OSD area is only 640x480. As a result, the video area in tv is smaller than the visible area of tv. In GUI mode, it works fine. Because the resolution is 800x600. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Firmware 5.801 Release Note 2003/12/18 [New/Modified Features] 1. This is the first standard released firmware for VP-580. 2. Watermark is temporally disabled. [Bug Fixed] 1. Stop recording if more than one disk was attached to VPON. [Known Problem] 1. After installing Plugin 2.98, an error message will be displayed after closing live video window in Netscape. You can just ignore it. 2. The follow functions that are in OSD mode are not implemented in GUI mode yet: a. Disk setup. b. Search by event. c. Backup 3. In 640x480 and GUI mode, entering motion-detection setting page may cause system reboot. 4. There's some duplicated PTZ control in GUI and OSD mode. 5. Some video may be lost after rebooting system. If this was happened, rebooting VP-580 can recover these video. 6. In GUI mode, if user backup data to CD-RW drive, remote video will be stopped. After the burning proceess had finished, remote video will be back. 7. For PAL cameras. there will be some black lone on the left and right edge of the video. 8. Horizional mirror has no effect on local video but it works on remote video and recorded video. This is a hardware limitation. 9. In GUI mode, overlay text can not be displayed on the video. 10. In GUI mode, motion detection diagram does not display when play video files. 11. Only administrator and super user can listen to audio on the web page but the extended user accounts can not. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Firmware 5.801B1 Release Note 2003/12/05 [New/Modified Features] 1. This is the first beta firmware for VP-580. This model has at most 8 video channels, 8 GPI, 4 GPO, one audio channel and a build-in hardware watch dog. There can be one motion-detection area for each camera. Multiple detection area will be supported in the future. You can optionally use internal IDE RAID module to support RAID 0, mirror, to improve the security of recorded video. [Bug Fixed] [Known Problem] 1. After installing Plugin 2.98, an error message will be displayed after closing live video window in Netscape. You can just ignore it. 2. The follow functions that are in OSD mode are not implemented in GUI mode yet: a. Disk setup. b. Search by event. c. Backup 3. In 640x480 and GUI mode, entering motion-detection setting page may cause system reboot. 4. There's some duplicated PTZ control in GUI and OSD mode. 5. Some video may be lost after rebooting system. If this was happened, rebooting VP-580 can recover these video. 6. In GUI mode, if user backup data to CD-RW drive, remote video will be stopped. After the burning proceess had finished, remote video will be back. 7. For PAL cameras. there will be some black lone on the left and right edge of the video. 8. Horizional mirror has no effect on local video but it works on remote video and recorded video. This is a hardware limitation. 9. In GUI mode, overlay text can not be displayed on the video. 10. The result of watermark checking is always failure.