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Avalon Media System 7.8
New in Avalon 7
Collections Index and Collection Landing Pages
Avalon 7 provides two new ways to explore and display collections: the collections index, a listing that shows each collection accessible to a user sorted alphabetically or by containing Unit, and collections landing pages, which provide a unique page for each collection where users can view a description, thumbnail and a preview of items within. Collection managers can now set thumbnails for collections as well as items.
Transcoding Pipeline
With this release of Avalon, the transition from Matterhorn to a self-managed transcoding process has been completed. Using the latest version of active-encode and the FFmpeg adapter, transcoding tasks are faster, leaner, and more flexible. A new transcoding dashboard also provides administrators a way to manage jobs directly within Avalon. While Matterhorn is no longer supported, full support is available for Amazon's Elastic Transcoder service.
Local User Management
Quickly create user credentials without relying on an outside authentication system (LDAP, Shibboleth, etc.).
Want to learn more? Documentation is available on our project wiki.
Avalon Architecture
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