Release Notes and Executables

Release 0.9

Status: BETA - Released for Review & Comment

Documentation:

Executable

Source code is on GitHub. If you would like more information, please contact us.

Overview

This is a BETA release of a desktop Avails Validation tool. It supports processing of both XLSX and XML formatted Avails files.

  • XML may be specified in conformance with either v2.1 or v2.2 of the EMA Content Availability Metadata specification.
  • XLSX must be specified in conformance with v1.7 of the Avails Spreadsheet Template.
Specifications and templates may be obtained from the MovieLabs Content Availability Metadata web-page.

Primary features are:

  • EMA  Avails Metadata validation.
  • Integrated XML editor -- intended for making corrections in an Avails file that doesn't yet validate.
  • Conversion of XLSX Avails file into XML.

New Features and Bug Fixes:

N.A.

None.

Known Issues

  • Validation of XML Avails based on versions of the specification prior to V2.1 is not supported.
  • Validation of Excel Avails based on versions of the specification prior to V1.7 is not supported.
  • Excel files must be in xlsx format.
  • Validation of Excel Avails files is limited to a single sheet.
  • No current support for translating XML Avails file into Excel spreadsheets

Other Changes

N.A.