This page collections collects known issues in Avalon Media System—bugs or otherwise unexpected behavior that have been not yet been fixed, or only occur in certain environments.

Managing Content

Manual Creation, Editing, Deletion

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'Skip transcoding' option when uploading a file fails in AWS/Minio environment, and results in unplayable section - #5594

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After saving the Manage Files page without uploading any files, attempting to upload files later results in an error - #2387

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File names with single quote characters result in errors during ingest (also applicable for batch) #4444

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Error When Selecting Shortcut Links in Google Drive #4541

prioritized to be fixed by the development team and are noteworthy for implementers.

For a full bug listing, see https://github.com/avalonmediasystem/avalon/labels/bug

Item Management

1. Batch ingest with pre-transcoded derivatives on s3/minio fails to ingest properly #4970

2. Item

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1. Item lease with a date range assigned to an IP address gives access to the item even beyond the date range - #2081

Avalon Media Player

1. https://github.com/avalonmediasystem/avalon/issues/5553

Media Playback and User Interface

1. (7.7 release) Text zoom in browser on mobile devices may render media player icons off-screen or unclickable (underlying issue in video.js) - #5410 

2. Structural metadata with undefined sections causes unexpected behavior in the track scrubber - #3047

3. Error text may intermittently flash during seeking or scrubbing: https://github.com/avalonmediasystem/avalon/issues/5148

Display

1. Within an iFrame, the media player does not resize - #2961

2. Embed login popup does not auto-close when using devise DB authentication - #3885

Accessibility

1. Captions are deselected when moving to different section in Safari. Users need to click the captions button to re-enable captions when a new section starts playing - (more information)

2. Closed captions are not displayed in full-screen mode in iOS devices - #4935.

   • Possible workaround - once the player is in full-screen mode use iOS player's controls to enable captions.

     1. Open player captions from the menu in bottom right corner

     2. Select captions in the order of; 'CC' and then 'English' options

1. 5600

2. Playlists may not autoplay in iOS 16 and below - https://github.com/avalonmediasystem/avalon/issues/5637

3. Auto-play does not advance for audio items on iOS

4. https://github.com/samvera-labs/ramp/issues/472

5. Playlists do not work in iOS 13 - https://github.com/samvera-labs/ramp/issues/461

Miscellaneous

1. The latest version of Wowza Streaming Server (4.7.8+) is not compatible with Avalon - #3799

2. Missing values in Avalon's controlled vocabulary configuration file results in 500 errors - https://github.com/avalonmediasystem/avalon/issues/40405823