Changelog
6.9.5.1 (09/06/2014)
Features
- Saves video streams from the cameras to the clients PC during surveillance or playback;
- Local / remote management of a server HDDs;
- Local / remote management of a server network interfaces.
Changes
- Tool "Joystick" moved to the "Client settings";
- Added visualization of motion during the joystick calibration, improved design;
- Navigating the camera in "full screen" via hot keys/joystick;
- Select camera on a Screen division via joystick ;
- Tooltips for icons indicating joystick modes;
- Joystick sensitivity adjustment;
- Camera zooming via joystick;
- Extended list of hotkeys;
- Substream is available at multi-export;
- Manual switching of main/sub stream for "All cameras"
- Manage->Camera - displays bitrate for each stream;
- Option - preloading main stream during the mouse cursor over a camera;
- Option - display the main stream by default;
- Show last exported task by the end of exporting;
- If video lags during playback at accelerated mode, displays the notification;
- Export video and audio to AVI without installing additional codecs;
- Select the codec for decoding the audio stream;
- Software increasing/decreasing the microphone signal.
- Deleted tab "themes".
Bug Fixes
- Timeline displays map including information about the substream recording;
- Multi-export - when frame is stuck;
- Export crashes with "unknown error";
- Incorrect animation of PTZ preset buttons;
- Software crashes during loading of events;
- "Alarm monitor" camera couldn't be closed on occasions;
- Calculation of coordinates osd zone;
- Excessive logging process of connecting to ip-camera.
6.9.4 (20/03/2014)
Features
- Added the ability to add Archive Event "labels" for searching during play back
- Export multiple cameras simultaneously with the same settings
- Export multiple cameras to one combined .avi file
- Added ONVIF to the list of IP camera protocols which can be manually configured
- Hotkey to save the current camera location
- Ability to control PTZ cameras using any joystick supported by the operating system
- Visual display of errors for cameras using dual-stream mode
- Users are now able to change the email address of the Dynamic DNS account owner
- Added the ability for VIDCodec to play damaged video files
- Added the new service "Line Cloud"
Web Client Updates
- Add, delete, edit and shut down servers
- Change user
- Increased the speed of frame display
- Save camera frames manually
- Digital zoom
- Activity indicator
- Disable individual cameras
- Change the audio buffer time
Changes
- Improved the export display interface
- Event Log now displays the microphone name instead of device name
Bug Fixes
- Crashing when connecting to old versions of Line
- Codec not supported error when exporting to AVI
- Username incorrectly displayed in the Connect to Servers window
- Hotkeys for moving PTZ cameras left and right missing
- Inability to transfer the domain name to a different server
- Digital zoom issues when switching to full-screen mode
- Critical server error when there are a large number of connections on the network
- Asynchronous recording of both streams for analogue cameras using Motion Detection
- Increased the activation of main-stream recompression from 1 second to 5 seconds to fix an issue with the sub-stream
6.9.3.1 (19/02/2014)
Features
- Added an option to manually select IP camera connection protocol
- Added hotkeys for PTZ control
- Added the ability to connect audio channel RTSP link
- Added an option to change the camera resolution through Reactions
- Displays the current stream as an icon
- Added an option to save the software settings when uninstalling
- Added the ability to add inactive server connection settings in Observer
- Added TOA control protocol for PTZ cameras
Changes
- Increased the maximum number of cameras to 60
- Reduced the amount of memory used by the Kernel process
Bug Fixes
- Reaction not changing certain camera settings
- Digital zoom settings resetting after entering full-screen mode
- High CPU occupation when playing back dual-stream video recordings
- Fatal error in Observer
- Mouse issues when using dual-stream PTZ cameras
- Issue exporting substream
- High CPU occupation when launching Observer with dual-stream cameras
- No default motion detection settings when there are over 32 cameras
- Incorrect display of dual-stream camera configuration
- Dynamic DNS options not saved when switching tabs
- Reduced frame rate when more than 32 cameras are displayed at once
- Alarm monitor not working correctly in some instances
- Incorrect aspect ratio in recorded video
- Delayed switching to substream in Observer
- Substream recompression always fixed at 25 FPS
- AAC decompression not working correctly
- Save dialogue not opening on the main monitor
6.9.2 (01/01/2013)
Features
- Dual-stream support for IP cameras and analog cameras
- Built-in Dynamic DNS
- Support for up to 60 video channels per server
- Added the option to re-encode the main stream
- Display two streams from a single camera in different cells
- Display the name of the active stream on the camera image
- Added tooltips that display the values of sliders
Changes
- Redesigned settings dialog
- Improved archiving algorithm
- Stream number added to the camera image if there is only one active stream
- Improved g726 audio decompression quality for IP cameras
- Reduced memory consumption caused by low hard disk performance
Bug Fixes
- Gray image with H.264 decoding with IP cameras
- Incorrect Reaction sound notification
- Settings not working correctly
- Fatal error when exporting video using the DevLine Codec
- Audio volume being set to zero when Kernel starts
- Quality slider not working correct with analog cameras when using H.264 compression
- Memory leak causing critical errors when using the prerecord function
- Motion detection being triggered behind privacy masks
- Inverted PTZ preset colors on the web client
- Incorrect layout in multi-monitor mode
- Buttons not appearing in multi-monitor mode
- Monitor mode being automatically reset
- Capture cards not working in Windows 8
- Loop recording on network drives
- Password being saved when connecting to a group and do not save password is selected
- Microphone not displaying correctly in camera settings
- Falsely detecting video in the Archive
- Full-screen settings sometimes being ignored
- Fatal error when viewing Archive folders
- Some PTZ Reactions not working correctly
- Save Frame Reaction text ignoring selected settings
- Camera image settings being set to 0 after closing
- Alarm monitor not working correctly
- Dual-stream Playback not working correctly with the Quick Playback feature in Observer
6.8.0 (25/07/2013)
Features
- Line - displays the version number in the title bar
- Line - added the ability to create privacy masks
- Line - more stable Kernel operations for IP cameras
- Line - displays camera connection status and diagnostics when connecting to IP cameras
- Line - detailed logging of IP camera warnings and errors
- Line - added support for additional IP cameras including ONVIF 2.0 compliant cameras
- Web-client - added the option to save aspect ratio
- Web-client - added the option to change frame rate
- Web-client - shows a list of cameras in the side panel
- Web-client - added the option to search for cameras by name
Bug Fixes
- Transport protocol (TCP/UDP) ignored in the preparation of audio stream for IP cameras
- Files only written to C: during installation
- ACTi, Zavio, and Vivotek PTZ cameras not working correctly
- Incorrect permissions when adding a newly created folder to the archive
- High memory consumption in Event Log
- Camera image freezing in Observer
- High CPU usage when opening the Motion Detection tab in Observer
- Incorrect Event Log filtering
- Problems connecting cameras with non-standard ONVIF implementations after updating from version 6.7.6
- Artifacts when exporting video with some IP cameras
- Critical error during the gathering of system information
- Incorrect hide/display panel on the secondary monitor
- Picture freezing on secondary monitor when minimized
- Clicking sound when playing back archived video
- Reaction sending the wrong information in emails
- Lost signal and microphone threshold exceeded Reaction Condition only working for the first camera
- Timeout (30000 milliseconds) while waiting for a response from the Kernel services
- Digital zoom icon overlay not being displayed on the camera
- VIDCodec files not playing videos with MPEG4
- VIDCodec not registered on 64-bit versions of Windows
- Maximum number of monitors in Observer limited to 4
- Current view not changing when Observer sets the default view automatically
- Archive entries stopped if one or more of the network folders are unavailable
- Camera resolution not consistent with that selected by the user
- Drivers not being installed correctly on first installation
- Critical error when using email, SMS, and FTP
- Critical error in Event Log
- Critical error with large Archives
- Various IP camera bugs
- H.264 and MPEG4 encoding errors
- Critical error and slow operation in Kernel with many network connections
- Cannot use audio with IP cameras when a large number of analogue cameras are connected
- Reaction alarm audio stopping unexpectedly
- Issues removing and uninstalling software
- Incorrect audio from the computer's sound card
- Reaction sending emails with black images
- Fatal error in Kernel when accessing Archives
- Fatal error when resuming playback after pausing for a long time
- Incorrect aspect ratio in web-client
- User Log being flooded by Reaction messages
6.7.6 (09/10/2012)
Bug Fixes
- Fatal error when running Kernel on a system without video devices connected
6.7.5 (08/10/2012)
Bug Fixes
- High CPU usage on servers
- Unable to connect to different RTSP streams from one IP camera
- Various IP camera issues
6.7.4 (24/09/2012)
Features
- Added the option to choose between TCP and UDP for IP cameras
Bug Fixes
- Navigation not working with files which have no audio
- Users can export video from cameras not assigned to them
- Newly added channels only visible to the admin user
- Observer auto start function running prematurely on some systems
- Various IP camera issues
6.7.3 (05/09/2012)
Bug Fixes
- Unable to create folders on network drives
- Observer trying to find 127.0.0.1 indefinitely
- Issues when switching to NTSC on Windows XP machines
- VIDCodec not working correctly if installing over a previous version of Line
- Video artifacts
- Critical error when saving local settings
- Various IP camera issues
6.7.2 (27/08/2012)
Features
- NTSC device support for Line 4x25 and 8x25 Hybrid IP capture cards
- PTZ support for IP cameras over RS-485
- Support for additional IP cameras
Changes
- Improved critical error processing mechanism
- Improved settings restoration mechanism
- Finalized sysinfo tool
- Finalized information output on image from cameras with web-server commands
Bug Fixes
- IP address filter is now also applied to the web-server
- Microphone dropping
- Error during video export
- Error in frame decompression function
- Various IP camera errors
- Video still recording after switching off while postrecord is enabled
- Issue with VIDCodec not working correctly