Bosch H-264 User Manual

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Release Letter

H.264 Firmware for

Products:

CPP3 cameras and encoder s

Version:

This letter contains latest information about the above mentioned firmware versio n.

5.52.0026

1 General

This firmware is a maintenance release based on former release 5.52.0015. This firmware provides a set of bug fixes for specific CPP3 H.264 dome cameras. The platforms have been renamed for a more generic recognition to “Common Product Platform”,

short CPP, followed by the architecture-related number or suffix. The filenames are adapted accordingly.

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Applicable products:

o AutoDome Easy II IP series o AutoDome Junior HD, Jr HD fix o VG4 AutoDome IP series o AutoDome 700 IP IVA o AutoDome 800 IP IVA series o Dinion XF 720p+, NBN-921-P o Dinion XF, NBC-455-P o Dinion 2X, NBN-498-P o Flexidome XF 720p+, NDN-921-P o Flexidome XF, NDC-455-P o Flexidome 2X, NDN-498-P o Economy Box Cameras, NBC-225 series, NBC-255 series, NTC-255-PI o Economy Dome Cameras, NDC-225 series, NDC-255 series o Economy HD Box Cameras, NBC-265 series o Economy HD Dome Cameras, NDC-265 series o Extreme series EX30 IR, NEI-30 IR Imager o Far Infra-Red camera, VOT-320 o VIP X1 XF Single-Channel H.264 Encoder o WLAN cameras NBC-255-W and NBC-265-W o Economic version VIP-X1XF-E o Video Conference Dome IVA o MIC IP PSU

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2 Changes

• Bugfix for: Junior HD Fixed doesn't always return to saved fixed position

• Bugfix for: Preset Manual Focus incorrectly returns 1 for Auto/OnePush and 2 for Manual

• Bugfix for: Sector blanking not clearing after some operations

• Bugfix for: Upgrading firmware with sector 1 blanked causes all sectors to be blanked

• Bugfix for: Change behavior of Aux 86 and 87

• Bugfix for: 66-On removes Install Mode title in Junior HD Fixed

• Bugfix for: Functional OSD feedback displays replace 'Display Blanked' in blanked sector

• Bugfix for: Position loss issue for AutoDome 700 & 800

• Bugfix for: "Display Blanked" message is not always on the screen when sector is banked

• Bugfix for: "Install Mode" overlay is removed while Junior HD Fixed is still in Install Mode

• Bugfix for: SET-898 while zoomed does not reset the pan/tilt speed

• Bugfix for: Position loss issue for Junior HD

• Bugfix for: AutoDome 800 series moves in the wrong direction after receiving the NTCIP Delta

command

• Bugfix for: Junior HD Cogging at full zoom is not acceptable for casino project

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3 Restrictions; Known Issues

• The camera date/time will be set to default (Year 2000) after power loss exceeding the buffer period. It is important to ensure that the date/time is correct for recording. An incorrec t date/time setting could prevent from correct recording.

• After firmware upload while daylight saving time checkbox is activated the time zone must be adjusted.

• After reboot, the system time re-synchronisation may be delayed up to 9 seconds for SNTP respectively up to 14 seconds for time server protocol.

• LUN size for local recording via “Direct iSCSI” is limited to 2 TB.

• VRM version 2.10 or higher is required.

• In some cases formatting errors on external iSCSI drives may occur, which might need

multiple tries to overcome.

• In rare cases it may happen that the owner of an iSCSI LUN is not displayed correctly. Recording is not affected, just previous owner remains displayed.

• If a device had primary and secondary recording running on SD card and is then added to a VRM system, the blocks used for primary recording will not be re-used, reducing the available recording space for the ANR recording. This can be solved by re-formatting the SD card.

• Throughput limit for simultaneous recording and local replay at 100% playback speed is:

o maximum total recording bit rate of 7 Mbps for external iSCSI recording o maximum total recording bit rate of 10 Mbps for SD card recording, depending on

SD card performance

• SD card recording performance is highly dependent on the speed (class) and performance of the SD card.

• FTP exported files which include audio in a format other than AAC must be renamed from .mp4 to .m4a to allow correct playback in QuickTime.

• With streaming set to 1080p or 720p50/60, AES encryption is not possible.

• For HD cameras the encoder property setting “H.264 BP+ (bitrate limited)” can only be

selected for the downscaled second stream.

• For standard definition devices the encoder property setting “H.264 BP+ (HW Decoder)” can only be selected for one stream. If the second H.264 stream is configured for this property, the selection of the other stream will be changed to “H.264 MP Low Latency”.

• Encoding bit rate for Baseline Profile plus (BP+) is limited to maximum 1.2 Mbps, regardless of any other setting in the encoder profile, without the special Global License Key applied. Additional delay will also be applied; maximum end-to-end delay might be up to 400 ms.

• Privacy Masks with colors black or white may cause tamper alarms "Picture too dark" or "Picture too bright" to trigger. Use gray color for Privacy Masks when these tamper alarms shall be activated to avoid false alarms.

• Privacy Masks on AutoDome Junior HD can only be colored gray.

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• Privacy masking is not supported for VG4 AutoDome, AutoDome Easy II, Economy Box cameras NBC-2x5, Economy Dome cameras NDC-2x5 as well as for VIP X1 XF.

• Access to the BVIP products’ browser interface with secure connection (HTTPS) using Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 is only possible with AES Encryption license enabled. IE8 does not support 56-bit key DES encryption any more which requires the BVIP products to provide a 128-bit key encryption algorithm. This can only be realised by using AES.

• If the memory protection inside the Internet Explorer is enabled (default setting), the automatic installation of Autoload Decoder will fail without producing an error message. Consequently, the replay page will not show video. As a work-around, two options are available:

o Disable memory protection in Internet Explorer and re-connect to the device. o Manually download the Autoload Decoder installer from the device.

The installer can be downloaded via http://<ipaddress>/setup.exe and started manually.

• With I-frame-only recording and aud io als o en abled for recording, audio will be fragmented or not audible during replay. Please disable audio recording in case of I-frame-only recording.

• With JPEG Posting active when device is booting, the first posted JPEG image may be a no- cam logo.

• M-JPEG HD resolution always follows HD resolution of stream1, respectively the stream with the higher resolution.

• Numbering of the recorded files on the replay page is not always contiguous. If snippets across block borders belong together, like pre-alarm and alarm recording, the snippets become logically united and only the lower file number is presented in the list.

• Video and audio may be asynchronous during replay via Web page.

• FTP posting with resolution 1080p delivers JPEG with size of 1920x1072 pixels due to 16

pixel macroblock boundary of the JPEG encoder.

• JPEGs from HD cameras in downscaled formats 480p and 240p are not scaled to 16:9 aspect ratio but to aspect ratio of 4CIF respectively CIF.

• When DHCP is switched on, Web browser has to be restarted and reconnected to the newly assigned correct IP address.

• Video loss might occur when the I-frame quality is set to a low value (e.g. 9) in a complex scene with a high video resolution. With these settings I-frames may become too big, which might cause a buffer-overflow.

• When configuring a sec o nd ary VRM recording while a primary recording is active, a gap of a few seconds will occur in the primary recording until all recordings are restarted.

• Pre-alarm time might become less accurate with extreme values, e.g. hours.

• For VOT-320, the tasks removed object, idle object and crowd detection are not supported.

• For WLAN cameras, viewing, recording and replay capabilities are dependent on wireless

network quality and throughput. Default bit rate values, though already lowered, may need to be maintained accordingly to match the network’s capability.

• Frame rates in low light mode might vary and cause bit rate control to produce higher bit rates than set as maximum.

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