Avalon 7.8

Avalon 7.8 includes a new component for searching transcripts within the transcript viewer, dependency upgrades, and a variety of bug fixes and minor improvements.

"Found in" text now appears in search results, indicating the number of matches for separate areas of the record: descriptive metadata, section metadata and transcript text
Upgraded to Ramp 3.2, which includes a component for searching within documents in the transcript viewer with rich navigation and match highlighting
IIIF Content Search service
Playback rate control: media playback speed can be decreased or increased with a widget in the media player
Catalog searches return more quickly
IIIF manifest URL added to the Share panel
Embedded media player now uses Ramp

Other Major Changes and Update

Captions can be marked as, allowing them to serve as both captions and navigable document within the transcript viewer
The Avalon API now allows for CRUD operations for supplemental files, including caption and transcript files
Batch ingest now accepts columns captions and transcript files and metadata
Transcript language can now be specified per file
New configuration added to provide a link for direct download of derivatives through the UI
New recordChangeDate field to track the last change to descriptive metadata
"Has Transcript" and "Has Caption" facets moved to the admin facet listing
File size limit for web upload changed to remove the 2 GB default
Added setting for configuring alternative Rack tempfile location
Bibliographic ID value added to the search index for instances where import is not performed

Bug Fixes

Short playlist descriptions do not results in buttons next to text
Playlist description is now collapsed by default
Poster and thumbnail images are no set to improper aspect ratios for certain video container files
Added handling for media whose ratio is defined in metadata and was not reported by mediainfo
Limit the number of stream tokens in a user session to avoid session overflow errors
Timecode values in the Timeliner tool display properly for media longer than 60 minutes
Fixed an internal error when saving a parent object fails
Parsing fix for SRT files

Releases Page

https://github.com/avalonmediasystem/avalon/releases

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