Development & Design Blog

We’re getting ready for the next update to MediaCore and have a new release candidate ready for beta testers.

Download the release candidate:
http://getmediacore.com/files/MediaCore-0.8.1rc1.tar.gz

If you find bugs, please report them:
http://github.com/simplestation/mediacore/issues

If you would like to suggest features for our next 0.8.2 release please post them below.

Cheers,
The MediaCore Team

Major new features in 0.8.1

• Improved HTML5 device support (including fixes for iPods and iPads)
• Improved performance, especially when serving media files.
• Automatic fetching of thumbnails, duration, and title, for YouTube, Vimeo, and Google Video items
• Adds the option to use the JW Player HTML5 player

Minor features and improvements

• Simplified database setup and automated migrations for when schema changes become necessary.
• Automated tests for some key features, with more coverage coming.
• Streamlined media edit interface.
• Many small interface updates
• Improved file serving efficiency, including support for apache’s mod_xsendfile
• Added ability to upload non-jpeg thumbnails
• Fixed situation when uploading files or thumbnails for a media item that hasn’t been ’saved’ yet.
• Reorganizes and formalizes how the best media-file/player combination is chosen to serve to a given browser, if a media object has more than one file associated. see
• docs for details
• All display options now also indicate how much extra bandwidth they add to the included files.
• Adds the beginnings of internationalization and a German translation.
• Uploader now accepts files with .avi, .mka, .mkv, .oga, .ogv, .webm extensions
• Uploader no longer accepts files with .3g2, .divx, .dvx, .qt, .vob extensions

Bug Fixes

• Fix bug with iphone-ipod-ipad being incorrectly identified as plain old Safari.
• Fix JW Player to be able to use media URLs with query strings.
• fixes a bug where .m4a files would be labelled as video files, because the old code passed the container to guess_media_type(), rather than passing the original file extension
• Fixes an XSS vulnerability in the StaticURLParser
• Hopefully this fixes an intermittent issue where the submit button wraps to the line below the text input.
• Improve error message when saving media returns a 500 error
• Fix media API to return proper category names
• Fix google video embed ID parsing for some IDs
• Fix pick_media_file_player when selecting files for iTunes, when combined with certain player settings
• Fix non-relative links in base.css that were preventing icons from loading on some pages
• Fix what ‘Latest Episodes’ are shown on the frontend podcast index to actually always show the latest episodes.
• Fix frontend categories list not updating until server reboots. Closes #21
• Fix incorrect escaping of Media.title
• Fix Media.increment_views() to (hopefully) handle concurrency better
• Fix issues with JWPlayer in some browsers, due to incompatibilities between Browser/MooTools/JWPlayer and their acceptance of the ‘application/xhtml+xml’ content type
• Fix podcast feeds incorrectly treating unicode text as HTML
• Improve reliability of FTP uploads to remote storage servers
• Fix some IE javascript issues
• Fix potential slug collisions when adding groups of tags.
• Fix setting the duration on a new media file before saving the main form (admin media edit page)
• Fix (admin Media page) adding new files on previously unsaved new media
• Fix (admin Media page) adding thumbnails on previously unsaved new media
• Fix (admin media page) removing a queued file upload not removing it from the sidebar list
• Fix 500 errors when dealing with a client with no HTTP_USER_AGENT
• Fix ajax validation problems when using Rich Text Editing
• Fix the progress bar for image uploads
• Fix random bullets appearing on the “share” box
• Fix JWPlayer thumbnail display with embedded media