AVConference Build 84 Brings a Lot of Improvements

We have been busy working on AVConference within the past week and we managed to add a lot of new features and improvements, so let’s get to it.

Here are all the new feature added:

1. Implemented new setting autoCloseCams that when set to 1 when a user that is being watched leaves the room, his webcam will be removed from the stage instead of saying “this user has left the room” or “this user has stopped broadcasting”.
2. When asking for webcam access AVConference now shows the ‘Privacy’ dialog box with 3 options: allow, deny and remember instead of the one with just 2 options.
3. When a camera is closed all the other cams are now rearranged.
4. Implemented new setting disableCameraWindowResize in avc_settings.xxx that controls whether or not the web-cam window can be resized or not (when resizing is turned off the red resizing corner disappers and zooming in/out with the mouse wheel is disabled).
   
5. Added four new tags, <displayWidth>, <displayHeight>, <othersDisplayWidth> and <othersDisplayHeight> in the audio-video quality profiles  XML files, that allow the user to set the width and height of his webcam area and other webcam areas independent of the actual stream resolution.
6. Implemented a JS API that gives you the connection status of AVConference. When AVConference attempts to connect to the media server it will call the netConnectionStatus JS function found in index.html and admin.html.
7. Implemented new setting windowsFontColor found in avc_settings.xxx that controls the color of all the texts/titles inside the windows.
8. Added new setting (hideUsersList ) that controls whether or not the users-list will be hidden or not. If this setting is set to 1, along with setting fileSharingEnabled to 0 and allowSendAudioVideo to 0, AVConference can be set to function as an instant messenger, so this makes it very customizable. Here’s how it looks set as mentioned above:
   
9. Added new setting (errorTextColor)  that controls the color of the errors shown.
10. Added new setting (loginTextColor) that controls the color of the login texts.
11. Microphone and camera icons can now be changed by replacing camera.gif and mic.gif.

Here are all the fixes that we’ve made:

1. Fixed issue with web-cam windows not auto-positioning correctly.
2. Fixed issue with disableGenderSelection  not working properly.
3. Fixed issue with login elements not being centered relative to the flash area.
4. Fixed issue with text that was showing at the top

How to download and upgrade:

You can download this new build of AVConference from your client account.

Steps to upgrade an old installation:

1. overwrite all old client side files.
2. overwrite the media server files and restart the media server.

If you have issues with it after upgrading make sure you clear your browser’s cache. If you still have issues after doing that send us an email at support@nusofthq.com.