This page collections known issues in Avalon Media System—bugs or otherwise unexpected behavior that have not yet been fixed, or only occur in certain environments.
Managing Content
Manual Creation, Editing, Deletion
'Skip transcoding' option when uploading a file fails in AWS/Minio environment, and results in unplayable section - #5594
After saving the Manage Files page without uploading any files, attempting to upload files later results in an error - #2387
File names with single quote characters result in errors during ingest (also applicable for batch) #4444
Error When Selecting Shortcut Links in Google Drive #4541
Batch ingest with pre-transcoded derivatives on s3/minio fails to ingest properly #4970
Item Access
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
Playback
(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
Structural metadata with undefined sections causes unexpected behavior in the track scrubber - #3047
Error text may intermittently flash during seeking or scrubbing: https://github.com/avalonmediasystem/avalon/issues/5148
Display
Within an iFrame, the media player does not resize - #2961
Embed login popup does not auto-close when using devise DB authentication - #3885
Accessibility
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)
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.
Open player captions from the menu in bottom right corner
Select captions in the order of; 'CC' and then 'English' options
Miscellaneous
The latest version of Wowza Streaming Server (4.7.8) is not compatible with Avalon - #3799
Missing values in Avalon's controlled vocabulary configuration file results in 500 errors - https://github.com/avalonmediasystem/avalon/issues/4040