He's referring to what I referred to in post #154 above.

I installed it again, and it still wasn't working, but now I figured out why. I was testing it the whole time in the mod-forum, which is password protected, I think that's the reason, because it works in the public area.

But just a suggestion, if you now post a link, let's say:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=WufLXFlI_dM
And post it. You get the included video with the link above it. Is it possible to remove the link above the include? It would look better.

Besides that, marked as installed and gonna vote it for mod of the month. good job!

It sounds to me like you switched on the option to copy the URL above the embedded text. If you don't want that feature, then don't use that option :p

Having a password protected area won't affect the mod, but if you've included or excluded forums via the admin options - it will. Or if BBCode is switched off and you haven't used bbcode override that's also a problem.

Hmm, where can I find this option?
If I click on "edit" (under "Manage Products" I don't see any options) and if I click on "Plugin Manager" and than on "edit" I see some code, but I'm not sure what to edit, to get rid of that text.

Besides that I noticed another problem. The automatic embeding doesn't work if you edit a thread. I create a new post/thread, post the code, press submit and it works. If I click on "edit" and add another link to a video, it doesn't get embedded?!

Hi again! I'm all up for file uploads, anyone who complains is a 'tard. :D

Love the way this is developing. I'm already building a GARS forum to utilise this new feature. And in fact I am about to buy a new vB to create a new site at the URL in my sig (Televisual) - GARS & this mod will make love (I hope :D).

Above poster: It isn't supposed to process the URL's when you edit a thread.

great mod thanks m8

Great great greaaaattt!!!! :D

SAME HERE I uninstalled the vipers and went threw all night and fixed all my old videos SUCKED !!! and ..

I cant get this mod to embed when editing a post it just wont go

DM

From the information listed at the top of every page on this thread (and mentioned also a few posts back as well):

1. If you edit a thread and add the youtube code, it is not converted to video
2. On the dark background there is some white borders around ( http://valhalla.ulver.com/f155/t8409.html )

1. Are you reporting this to me, or telling the poster above to read the notice at the top of the page? If you are reporting this, I would refer you to the post IMMEDIATELY ABOVE the one you wrote. I've taken the time to support people here - could you please just read the notes before you raise an issue with me that I've known from the start? two people in a row raising exactly the same thing is a bit much sometimes.

2. This is what comes in the embed code. If it makes sense at some later date I might consider seeing if it is possible to configure this, but it would be a pain doing it for every different type of embed code.

Fixable solution? Yeah, disable Viper's mod! I didn't have time to completely reverse engineer his mod, but I'll explain what I saw. He's going in to the bbcode parser and screwing around. The bad part is things like this:

If you look closely, instead of checking for [YOUTUBE] (which is the tag he uses, also not a good choice to use the same name tag as everyone else might and to delete it if you uninstall the product...), he is checking for [youtube (without the ending bracket).

This basically means that he is looking for any other tag which starts with the word youtube, and trashing it. Since I chose youtubevid to try to be unique, his mod is killing my tag, which is why it isn't showing up until you disable his mod.

Be careful about uninstalling his mod though - it will delete the tags he uses as well, and any existing content you have won't be embedded after that. Disable it instead.

The only way you can fix this is to get him to update his mod to not kill off other people's bbcode, or disable it. If you do uninstall it, manually copy down the details of the bbcode for the existing tags, because you'll have to recreate them again afterwards.

What I can do however is make the next version of my mod refuse to install if it finds a mod like this one which conflicts. I know that's not the perfect solution, but short of changing tag names to get around this issue, there's nothing I can do (and I don't want to change tag names now that they are out there!)

Sorry to bug again, but I still don't know where to disable the "copy url above" option:

It sounds to me like you switched on the option to copy the URL above the embedded text. If you don't want that feature, then don't use that option

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great hack, love it !!

Ummm, well since you were the one who switched it on, you should really know where to switch it off? Try the clue in the description of this mod listed at the top of the page, namely:

Hey not sure if you are aware of this link, but this is another link from youtube that is different and doesnt work http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtRk0-B7QEc

Umm, you've been pretty good so far, but does the following from post #129 apply to you?

I tested that URL, and it works. It works because I allowed for that format in 1.1.

Yikes yes that does seem like sloppy code. I'll have to look at a workable solution.

Disabling vipers code won't work as his bbcode fails to function then. I can only assume hes parsing as its displayed to alter the {param} tag as he presents his bbcode as

But we posted in the youtube videos using the url link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eKifSDgU48

So this results in quite a messed up

The only workable option i've so far found is to remove vipers code completely and manually edit each youtube embedded video replacing his tags with your tags and removing the front line url so

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eKifSDgU48[/YOUTUBE]

becomes

[YOUTUBEvid]1eKifSDgU48{/YOUTUBEvid]

That works effectively but will require some work to track down each post that has his tags embedded.

Thankfully there is a solution to this using phpmyadmin.

Just enter into your database and type in the following mysql in the SQL tag to show you all your posts that have referance to youtube tags (note on a big board this could be many]

The you just have to edit the tags from

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZBxfntDq3M[/YOUTUBE]

to

[YOUTUBEvid]VZBxfntDq3M[/YOUTUBEvid]

removing referance to the url and adding this new embedded bbcode.

Its a cludge but if you only have around 50 or so linked youtube videos is likely the best course of action to get this mod working and remove vipers.

Well if I were you I'd complain to viper about that block of code. I don't want to second guess him, but if it were me, and I were dealing with this issue, I'd probably go into his plugin and knock out that block of code - it seems agressive to me and doesn't actually do any good. So there might be some other tags around? So what? They can be left in peace.

I think that will solve your issue - but like I said - the thread for that mod would be the best place to discuss how that mod should be changed, rather than this thread.

Agreed however i'm happy to substitute one for the other and for those using vipers mod that think the same, theres a workable solution now posted to allow yours to be used across the board :)

hi..
just installed ..
http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/4139/embox2.jpg

its working...but after showing the vdo it also showing the url...
any way Not to show the url but only vdo

TIA.

Please tell me why I should support you when you haven't even bothered to read even the last 2 pages of this thread?

This is happening because YOU enabled an option to do this, and now you are asking ME how to turn it off? Go back and read the last couple of pages for the answer.

To everyone else - this is now the second person that has reported this. I believe that they have both turned this option on in the admin CP. I've double checked the code and the default is "No" for this switch, and the logic which controls it appears to be working on my forum. It's a simple conditional, and I don't think it is malfunctioning.

Could someone who is running 1.1 please confirm for me that the URL copy feature does in fact default to off, and that it doesn't appear unless the forum admin specifically goes and turns it on? Given that both of these users didn't even bother to read the options in the admincp (otherwise they would have mentioned it), I am assuming that the mod is not defective, but I'd really like to know from someone else whether my assumption is correct. Lazy users seldom give feedback on their own laziness, they tend to just disappear, so I doubt I'll get the feedback from these two that the mod wasn't at fault.

Mark

Thanks for this mod :)

Do you think this mod may integrate this site ?

http://www.koreus.com

As you know i upgraded from v1.0 to 1.1 and i can confirm that this option is off by default.

Enabling it and disabling it works as it should mate. Theres nothing wrong with the mod, just laziness at fault.

Thanks for that. Actually, it's worse than laziness. Laziness would have been using the default setting. Changing a setting that you don't bother to understand, then reporting it as a problem goes beyond that :mad:

I seriously understand now why many developers release their mods as unsupported.

This mod rocks. Don't forget to hit install.

Well know mate that your support is appreciated.

(vbulletin lagging all arvo for me) I actually tried to edit my post and change what I wrote as I realised that I had not updated yesterday (thought i did ^^ ) and after updating, it works fine, and I also tested out some of the new features, which I love :D

Thanks again for releasing this awesome product :)

MOD WITHDRAWN

I'm sorry guys, I've withdrawn this mod. Since this mod was a big hit, you are probably quite surprised by this.

The Geek approached me shortly after the release of this mod and suggested some changes to the architecture. I asked for some code samples, but he ended up writing a completely new product with similar functionality. I was prepared to incorporate some of the ideas, but unless I used his code he was going to release it as a totally separate product. Unfortunately we couldn't come to an agreement about the way forward and he decided to release his product anyway.

I strongly believe that there shouldn't be two products which do the same thing. Even though users are free to choose, it fragments the community - I would prefer that this idea goes further and I believe that this can only happen if everybody gets behind one mod. So I made a choice, since I can't force someone else not to release a mod based on the same idea, I'm withdrawing my mod, so that the community can get behind ONE mod, rather than two.

I'm sorry it's not my mod that will take this concept further, but I trust you'll enjoy The Geek's version and help him to build it further. It's been fun writing this mod and I learned a lot while doing it. At the end of the day at least I can say that I contributed the idea that started it all off. I strongly believe that embedded video on forums is going to really change the way things are done, and I'm glad I could at least play a small part in that.

Good luck to all of you.

Mark

So the mOd you want us to use is from the Geek and hasnt been posted yet?

Correct. Obviously if you've already got my mod installed you don't have to remove it immediately, nothing will break :D You can then take a look at the Geek's version when it is released. I've just withdrawn the mod early to make sure that the size of the installed base for this mod is as small as possible prior to the release.

He told me he doesn't know exactly when it will be released, he thinks tonight or tomorrow. The version I saw didn't have my extra features, so I guess he is busy coding those now to make sure that it supports the same kind of things.

Harm. I have myself been pleased it with me to insert already in such a way with the German videos. It was first chops that immediately and very well functioned.

Dude, I'm not stupid. If I said, I didn't enable it, I didn't enable it - it's that easy. Anyway I just take a look at it and of course it was "disabled" in the options, but it STILL shows the text above it.

Anyway, I see that you stopped support of the mod, so it doesn't matter that much. But it's indeed weird to stop support for this mod, when the "new" one isn't even out yet...

For what it's worth, I'm disappointed by mfyvies choice on this - but it is his to make. I encouraged him to keep this here, but I see that it is already removed.

The version I sent him was a functional replacement for his first version and IIRC, contained all of the feature set, but none of the code. Since then he added a bunch of other features, most of the relevant ones I folded into the project before we went separate ways. My version is about 90% lifted out of existing code I have for GAL 6, so it was pretty quick and easy to package up.

The only thing I would like to do is write a conversion tool for all the existing bbcodes that this one installed. As stated, it should be ready tonight or tomorrow but I wont guarantee ill have time to do a conversion tool for these bbcodes.

This mod is a great idea and I wish we would have found the common ground we needed to release something jointly. I still think that users would benefit more from a choice - but it doesnt look like that will happen. Sorry about the pain guys.

Well Im not into the drama of who when and why , all i know is that i have been through a few different You Tube Ect... Embedders and this one seems to work great i then spent about 8 hours removing my old [YOUTUBE] ... I tried to replace them with [youtubevid] As per this mod and all of them refused to embed ???? So I posted That this dont work when editing a thread , and left all my posts with no embed tags so the links would work ,

Good Or Bad Im ready to get a mod that going to be around for the long run ,

Jumping on the newest mods here is cool , leaves you thinking that your hooking up your members with stuff that no one else has , But on the bad side You have to ride out the waves,re writes, new versions , updates , additional edits Ect and its a headache ,

Im extremely greatful for you coders as i have 40 Hacks now But i wish that You guys/gals would get all your ducks in a row before just posting a new hack It would save you from getting 500 pages of support questions and getting burnt out answering the same questions so many times that it goes UNSUPPORTED and Screws all the members who didnt get on board with your hack at the beginning

Aie Aie Aie

Thanks Geek and i plan on installing your Mod as soon as i see it as i want to get my Board on the right track when it comes to video embedding ASAP

Make sure it will work when editing a thread if you would please
Later
DM

I also don't want to get into all the details, but suffice to say that this is exactly what I tried to do here (get my ducks in a row). When I started this, and also when I released it there was no other mod that could do this. Therefore I tried to get a quality release that worked very quickly and gave most of the features that people wanted, with a roadmap for further development down the track. It's quite hard to do with this video stuff, because people will always report variations in the format, so it takes time to tweak. Let's not forget that this mod was only a few days old. However, when other mods pop up with identical functionality afterwards, I don't see the point in continuing development. I'll simply go off and find another original idea to develop (I have plenty). I don't write and support these mods because I enjoy it, I write them because I need the functionality, and if nobody else has stepped up the plate, then I have to do it. I also can't allow myself to be in a position where I have used someone else's code, but I have restrictions placed on me on which features I can and can't implement with this code. In this case I'll make the choice to use my own code - but not if my own code does exactly the same thing as someone else's!

If other mods had done this before there's no way I would have written one!

So sorry again - I was in this for the long haul, but I don't want to see a situation of two (or more mods) with totally separate codebases doing the same thing initially, with users bouncing between them. I think in this case choice is a bad thing. Programmers should be putting their resources into fresh ideas, this is now what I will do. I hope you enjoy some of my forthcoming releases.

Anyway, just so you know - if you uninstall my mod, the bbcodes are left in place for you to remove manually. This means existing stuff will keep working. For most people having 16 extra bbcodes on their system won't bother them. And if it really was such an issue for you, then you probably wouldn't have used this mod in the first place :)

The transition to the other mod won't be a drama, and you'll get everything you got from mine - except support. ;)

Well Thanks For That ,

So Were all going to have to Pay For the Geeks Version Aint We?

As for how many installs you got in 3 days its pretty obvious How badly needed this is .

There are alot of Mods that alot of people want the same thing , Its Crazy How No One wants to work on these .

vBillards
Im willing to pay someone $30 a mth for a billiards table that verify's the $username tag and keeps records and is remotely hosted and my forum is not even a billiards/pool forum There are a Ton of billiards/pool forums online that i know would jump all over it .

At $30 a Mth for 100 Boards thats $36,000 a Year !!!! WOW

This is just an example , I cant code I have built a few websites And my crutch is Front Page If I could code You can bet that I would be Focusing on things that People on here ask for ...

Give a Gift Subscription

I would pay for it ! Where is it at TAKE MY MONEY !!!!

Get a Copy of the Forum Rules Shown at registration listed on the FAQ Page ... What a No Brainer ?

User Group Based Post Icons As Admin I want to Tag some of my threads with an Official Post Icon So Users can see this means business , Currently anyone can use every post icon

Thats Just a few that I need bad and have asked for and i know others would use that no one has pursued

I have Paid for Sweepstakes $25 , Infernos Whos Online AJAX box $15 , Addon Chat $180 , Plugin Poker $25 a month

I have the Referrals Page But i cant set it to only show referrals based on dates Tho its an option its never been finished I will pay for this !

My board supports its self i have 80 paid subscribers My board started on march 14th 2007 Im ready for this thing to Rock and Roll I have $$ to invest to make it better , Im asking you to take it !

www.dieselbombers.com

Thanks

DM

As an FYI: My contribution was never going to be a commercial mod and it never will be. I just won't be offering direct supporting on it. This was another reason I encouraged this mod to stay here.

BTW: It is generally advisable to have your mod remove itself completely when a user uninstalls it. However I suppose that means I don't need to bother with a converter.

I don't think you will have to pay for the geek's version, he just won't be supporting it. If he was going to release it as a paid mod, then I would not have pulled mine and would have continued development.

I hear your pain about these mods. I was in the same boat. I couldn't program mods either, so I started to teach myself by looking at how other mods worked. It wasn't easy - and even now when I post a programming question, unless it is easy it doesn't get answered, or if it does get answered not always with enough detail to help...

These days I don't bother posting mod requests anymore, I just start to sit down and write them. But I'm usually writing for something I really need.

I'd happily take on your projects, but I don't need any of them for my own system, and there probably wouldn't be enough income in them to justify them without that :-( the other problem is because I am still learning it takes me a long time to do this stuff.

The ironic thing is that when you post a request for a mod nobody is interested, but when the mod comes out everyone yells out "fantastic!" That's the way it goes in the world of free software...

Thanks And I Understand 100% , I hate seeing the Coders Say Thats it Not Supported

Dont get discouraged your efforts go along way for Me,My Board and its members .

As for the Give a Gift Subscription Ill pay you $20 PayPal right now for taking over https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=105553 for 3.6.7 This is a business move for me as it would only take 1 use to pay its self 100% then any use after that all in the green

DM