New awesome March AVChat 3 build (671)
The latest build of AVChat 3, made available for download today, packs some awesome new features:
- Tool tips on most buttons in the UI.
- Better UI (you can now re size your cam and the users list, other cams are now floating on top of the text chat area,cam borders are drawn correctly, slightly skinnier interface with default padding set to 6px).
- YouTube videos now play (again) in the actual YouTube player.
- Added option in the UI to show join/leave messages in the text chat.
- Lots of small updates for the text chat (proper html encoding for html characters, better detection/highlight mechanism for links, in some cases text chat would go over YouTube videos/pictures previews).
- Some small changes to the upload mechanism in php to go around some wierd web server security settings we’ve met : “http” not allowed in GET variables, not even HTML encoded !!!
- Added a new video/audio quality profile for 768kbits/s streams .
- Ghost users should now be detected and disconnected in max 17 seconds on all 3 media servers.
- Changed the way the fps, free time, nr of viewers shows up in the cam areas.
- Clicking the [Add IT] buttn in the YT submit button now adds the video directly.
- Spaces in usernames are not replaced by _ anymore.
- New option in avc_settings.xxx to disable YouTube previews.
- Added memory usage display (off by default, you can turn it on from avc_settings.xxx)
and bug fixes:
- The info about who is someone watching visible in admin.swf was not exact all the time.
- When cliking ACCEPT/DENY for someone’s request to your private stream some wierd text would fill up the text chat input box (bug introduced in build 609).
- Window padding value in style.css now actually works.
- Sorted out some sorting issues for the users list.
- When a YT movie preview was shown in the chat the whole movie was downloaded even tough you weren’t watching it.
- private streams were not working on Wowza 2 (they were on Wowza 1.7)!
and some updates to security too:
- Added the possibility to add an ip range for the ips from where admin.swf is allowed to connect.
- Admins now see the ip of each user in the text chat, you can double click the ip to select it.
- The allow localhost connections option is now available for all 3 media servers: Wowza, FMIS, Red5.
- The Rooms List in admin.swf now shows the ip of the creator of the room.
- Admin can now enter closed rooms.
How to get the new AVChat 3 release
You can obtain the latest AVChat 3 build by downloading the software again ( using the download link from the delivery/trial email) and:
- doing a clean install
or
- overwrite all the old files including the FMIS/Red5 server side files and the translation files
March 11th, 2010 at 17:07
Fantastic news! Was the bug with the private cams not working on Wowza fixed too?
March 11th, 2010 at 17:28
Yes it was fixed! That bug was specific to Wowza 2!
March 11th, 2010 at 18:20
It’s up and working great – thanks guys!
March 16th, 2010 at 17:52
some of my user’s get kickt out from avchat (ghost User), since the update
red5 server
March 21st, 2010 at 18:25
Hi
I have some issues as well some user’s get disconneted for being ghosts.
They can come in start the cam, and get kicked directly.
March 23rd, 2010 at 7:16
I strongly, strongly, dislike this new “feature” that the webcams start up in the middle of the chat, rather than being organized at the top like before. Could this not be an option?
Also, using an image (say, use an image that is 132×132) does not resize on the avatar list or on the little display at the top like it did before you changed it so that the aspect ratio stayed the same.
March 23rd, 2010 at 13:08
>Also, using an image (say, use an image that is 132×132) does not resize on the avatar list or on the little display at the top like it did before you changed it so that the aspect ratio stayed the same.
Please send a screenshot to support@avchat.net !
March 23rd, 2010 at 14:43
>I have some issues as well some user’s get disconneted for being ghosts.
They can come in start the cam, and get kicked directly.
Please contact support at support@avchat.net about it!
March 27th, 2010 at 16:09
same problem here, users kicks as ghost user.
March 29th, 2010 at 11:22
>same problem here, users kicks as ghost user.
Please contact support at support@avchat.net about it!
March 30th, 2010 at 20:48
>I strongly, strongly, dislike this new “feature” that the webcams start up in the middle of the chat, rather than being organized at the top like before. Could this not be an option?
I’ll second that. Once you get two or three cams floating around there, the room tabs are covered and a good portion of the text area too. Would love to see some type of option to put them back. I filled out the support form yesterday morning about that very topic but have not heard back yet.
March 31st, 2010 at 15:18
>I strongly, strongly, dislike this new “feature” that the webcams start up in the middle of the chat, rather than being organized at the top like before. Could this not be an option?
>I’ll second that.
I strongly oppose. There is always the option to resize the entire textarea and you can drag the cams to the freed space. The automatic resizing was buggy and caused a lot of problems up to the point where the textarea completely disappeared.
July 12th, 2010 at 19:44
How do I set the admin IPs? I’d like to turn it off. I currently cannot login as an admin because it won’t allow it.
July 13th, 2010 at 1:17
Edit
settings.asc on FMIS
avchat3.properties on Red5 and Wowza