As far as I can see on my test site, this works fine. Let me have details.

Do you mean the number of times each clip can be played in total? [Not yet possible to control] Or per day? [Ditto] Or by a single user? [Ditto] Or do you mean how many clips each user can play a day? [This is controlled on the admin download quotas page]

Yes, provided the settings are properly enabled.

Tell me what sort of video clips you want to control this way, and I can explain. If you have difficulties, send me details of your board, with an admin userid and password, and I'm happy to take a look.

Andrew, thanks so much for offering to help. Yes, eventually, I would like to be able to control the number of times a single user can play, but for now, it works fine if I can control how many clips each user can play per day--preferably also per week. I think you can easily implement the latter--how many times each user can play per week, right?

(The reason why I am asking is that I am setting up an online course with audio/video lectures. Bandwidth is always a concern here. If you have a better suggestion for controlling the playing of audio/viewing clips in that regard, I could definitely use it.)

Mostly for now, I would like to control mp3 audio recordings to be played by Windows Media Player (or Real Player) embedded in posts. What sort of changes should I make? If you can give me detailed instructions, I believe I am up to the task. I singlehandedly set up the vBulletin board myself and installed a number of plugins to date. The only thing I don't know is coding.

Is there a way I can donate in recognition of the effort you put into this? I really appreciate your help.

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Oh, by the way, one more question. MySQL has a limit on the size of attachment, correct? Does LDM works if I choose to put a link like the following into a post:

www.mysite.com/forum/media/file.mp3

instead of uploading it as an attachment, which might be prohibited by MySQL because of its large size?

That is to say, I FTP file.mp3 into the server, instead of uploading it as an attachment. Does LDM work just as well in terms of controlling how many times the file is to be played? If so, how do I go about doing that?

Yes, I can explain these points - bear with me until this evening

heh, I'm having a hard time finding any bugs in 2.1.5rc1 AndrewD :)

In fact I've not found any yet, even on my old PHP .. :)

One thing that is weird .. I've got a couple of links that refuse to validate via the admin pages ..

http://www.swift-tools.net/Quake/QVM/
http://www.truecombat.com/intro.php

Normally in this situation I'd just click on the links in their normal listings and once LDM detected that I'd got through to the link it would then change the status to normal instead of "Status Unknown" .. this doesn't seem to happen now. Have I missed a setting, or has something changed?

The only other thing that I can see is that "problem" with linked subforums not showing links in sub cats .. I'm guessing you've not looked at that yet :)

I looked at it ;) The challenge is to find a way to solve it which does not make the plug in very expensive to run on large boards. It currently isn't straightforward SQL to locate the entries that are in a category and its children.

I'll try to take a look at this tonight. Thanks. Where would a man be without his Slave.

Well .. I could mention "Full AdminCP integration" .. heh .. but I think you'd have a heart attack ..

:D

Oh .. one thing that's come to mind .. ;)

With the vBa modules .. at the moment it just shows the link and hits, would it be possible to also show the cat for each link?

link ? hits
cat
link ? hits
cat

sort of thing ..

Is it just the case of adding a $ to the links_vbalinks template, or is some editing of the php file required?