Avalon Releases version 6.4.2

Ryan Steans

May 8, 2018

The Avalon Media System team is happy to announce the release of Avalon 6.4.2.

This release contains two new features:

Adaptive Bitrate Streaming - Avalon can be configured to provide an additional quality setting, auto, within the media player. When auto is selected, the browser will automatically select the quality level best suited for the user's available bandwidth.

InterCom - a service which allows organizations hosting more than one Avalon Instance to push items from one Avalon instance to the other. Users may perform this task with individual items or in bulk.

In addition, Avalon 6.4.2 has corrected minor bugs which will improve performance of the system.

For a walkthrough of Avalon, please visit our demo Avalon installation, featuring a video tour of the system.

6.4.2 was released as code on April 20th, 2018. The first upgrade to a system (Avalon Demo System) occurred shortly thereafter. Indiana upgraded Media Collections Online on 05/08/2018.

For a walkthrough demonstration (approx. 26 minutes) please visit this link.

For upgrade documentation: https://wiki.dlib.indiana.edu/display/VarVideo/For+System+Administrators

Those interested in exploring Avalon should contact us at: http://www.avalonmediasystem.org/contact

Our Github: https://github.com/avalonmediasystem/

Avalon 6.4.2 on Github: https://github.com/avalonmediasystem/avalon/releases/tag/v6.4.2