Bugs and Known Issues

This page collects known issues in Avalon Media System—bugs or otherwise unexpected behavior that have been not been 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

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

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

Media Playback and User Interface

• (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

• https://github.com/avalonmediasystem/avalon/issues/5600

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

• Auto-play does not advance for audio items on iOS

• Issues with closed captions and iOS

  • Once captions are turned off using any method (native player or web viewer), users need to select the CC option in the native player before selecting the desired caption to get it to display.

    • https://github.com/samvera-labs/ramp/issues/473

  • If caption selection is changed in the web player, the incorrect subtitle option may show as selected in the native player.

    • https://github.com/samvera-labs/ramp/issues/473

  • The “CC” option may be nonfunctional

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

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

Miscellaneous

• The latest version of Wowza Streaming Server (4.8+) is not compatible with Avalon - #3799

• https://github.com/avalonmediasystem/avalon/issues/5823