[DBTech] Live Streaming Suite v3 (vB4)
 

Live Streaming Suite lets you host a directory of your forum's Twitch.Tv or YouTube channels, complete with stream status, live previews and direct links to users' streams!


Why use Live Streaming Suite?

If you run a gaming forum, and a lot of your users stream content, you know it can be hard to get good exposure on Twitch.tv or YouTube for your members' channels. This mod can help boost your members' exposure by letting them add their own channels to your directory, displaying them in a nice easy-to-browse interface with multiple features that allows viewers to find your channels easily.

You can also use this mod to promote your favourite streamers by adding channels via the AdminCP.


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* Marking a modification as installed also helps us know how many people are using our work, giving us extra incentive to provide more features and new modifications.

We appreciate the support!

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Complete Feature List

Lite

AdminCP Channel Management

• Add/Edit/Delete channels
• Control channels' display order

Front-End Channel Browser

• Paginated list of channels
• Displays stream status
• Displays offline or preview image (if one exists)
• Displays last or current game streamed
• Displays last or current stream title
• Displays last or current online time (last online time since installing the mod)

Channel Viewer

• View the live stream directly on your forum
• DragonByte vBShout integration

Permissions

• Can View

General / Other

• Display version number
• Enter your Affiliate ID

Pro

AdminCP Channel Management

• Set channel owner, if it belongs to a forum member
• Displays icon in the postbit for channel owner

Manual Channel Notification

• Send a forum PM and/or email (depending on user's subscription preferences) to all users subscribed to a channel
• Customisable title / message
• Useful for alerting users to something the streamer said elsewhere on the web, f.ex.

Manual Channel Schedule

• Ability to edit a channel and set the next stream date, if known
• Displays on the forum's Featured block
• Displays countdown until the chosen date
• Will be expanded to be editable for users in the future

Channel Viewer

• Twitch Chat integration

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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of pages generated by this mod which includes:

• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

Would you be able to make something like this for General Streams From websites at all Sir?

What other streaming services are popular? We can always look into it for future versions, but from my understanding Twitch.tv is the go-to site for streaming.

Fillip

well...well.....THANK YOU!!!....

but I'm getting this error when uploading the xml
Fatal error: Call to a member function fetch_table_info() on a non-object in /home/forum/public_html/includes/adminfunctions_plugin.php(1199) : eval()'d code on line 22

Updated :)


Fillip

thanks...worked but are there permissions I need to change? Everything installed fine and now when going to the page I get

"you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

1. Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
2. If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation."

no toggle under Admin permissions...

Yes, there are usergroup permissions you need to configure :)


Fillip

I didn't realized what it was till i seen the web site.I'm sure my kids would love this site.. :) nice idea though and I'm sure the gamer community will love it. There's other like ustream http://www.ustream.tv/ and others i can't remember now..:D

I mean for more Website streams so a way to input Just the webpage address or Link so users can View the streams
:up:

We still need specifics, because of how the backend works, they either need apis or something to expose for us to take advantage. Twitch happens to do just that. We can pass it some data and it passes it back.

I did a quick hotfix update to fix an issue with open_basedir (and safe_mode for older PHP installations) that would cause the stream to fail to fetch.

Also, as a general note: Do not input the full http://www.twitch.tv/<channelname> URL - it's only the <channelname> part that should be added. Anything else and it will fail to fetch the channel data.

I may look into automatically stripping this data for a future version :)


Fillip

It's nice,but I know the question will be asked,so I'll ask it now..Why are they only linking to the channels? And not embedding..

Because embedding does not give easy access to following & subscribing to the channel, AFAIK :)

Embedding would be doing the channel owner(s) a disservice in that regard.


Fillip

If you want to unlazy, you can do some of the fancier stuff with using an API key, etc.

Remote/embedded views are shown ads as well, so its not really a disservice.

But doing so will inconvenience the admins by forcing them to sign up for that program :)

For the time being (and especially for a mod coded from scratch in ~8 hours), direct linking is IMO a better alternative to embedding.


Fillip

Nice Mod! Many people really wanted something like this. :)

1. Problem: I just can add 1 new Channel-ID with a Channel Owner. If i want to add more Channeli-IDs with the same Owner it replaces the previous Channel-ID. Am i the only one with this problem?

But great Mod anyway. :)

Cheers,

That is intended behaviour. However, you can add channels with no owners via the AdminCP - an owner is not required :)


Fillip

Thanks for your answer. There is another thing:
Iam not exactly sure in what case this happend but its the secound time:

If i create a channel and want to edit it later on but > all fields are empty (pink).

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2013/10/10.jpg

Now if i want to delete this Channel (pink) the following error occured:

The reason i want to edit this channel is that the link was correct in the first place, but then it automatically added the following:
urbanzone > urbanzone%E2%80%8E

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2013/10/11.jpg

I re-installed the whole product and it works fine again but that is a strange behaviour. I guess not intended. ;)

Thanks for support,

Cheers,

Great mod. Works like a charm. Nice work.

Hmm, i got the same problem again with the first entry. Some Channel-Links adding stuff like %E2%80%8E again.
Any solution for this? :(

You want to add the option to sort by online status and viewer count?

Do you have mbstring and iconv installed on your server?

Good evening,

We are struggling to get this mod installed. We are running vB 4.2.2. We are using quite a few other vB mods from dbtech and have had no issues.

The files appear to be installed in the correct areas and the product is properly installed onto the forums.

We are not seeing any type of adminCP link like the rest of your other dbtech mods have. We are also unable to see it at all from a direct link on our forums.

I'm sure you'll need more information from me, so please ask.

Thank you in advance for any assistance we can get!

Ryan
Horizon Gaming

update: we were able to get it installed. However, it says we do not have access to the channel. I've looked everywhere for a way to adjust it and we just don't see it. There is not a permissions tab in the admincp, and when we access the direct link it says we cannot access it, even as admins.

update: issue fixed! Nice mod! Installed and MOTM vote!

Great Mod!

If you can add Ustream, would be awesome considering both works with new consoles. :)

Hope this is still being worked on, vbulletin really needs a good twitchTV mod.

Nice integration

very nice, we had our own custom coded twitch.tv integration but this is much cleaner! only thing we are missing now is a forum sidebar block to display currently online streamers. any way you can add this?

after using this for a day it is much faster than our old twitch integration but missing a couple things that i think would make this mod even better. one is my above post about a sidebar block. it will increase the visibility of our streamers as a lot of the people using our forums do not bother with going through the menus to find what we offer. if its displayed right in their faces they will click and view much more often.

the second thing is to display currently online streams first in the list of streams. it would be better if you did not have to scroll through a bunch of offline streams to find one that is online. also it would be good to make online streams more identifiable. the little online/offline image isnt really that noticable and i have to lean in closer to my screen in order to see if a stream is online or not.

Feature requests are best posted @ our forum (http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/forum.php) since requests posted here will most likely get lost in the mists of time :)


Fillip

I have it installed and I see it in the Admin CP, , i ADDED achannel, but I don't see the channels anywhere on the forum .. So I was wondering what I'm I missing here.

In acp, did you goto options>navigation manager>"Add tab" and then name the page whatever you wanted and for "target URL" - "/twitch.php"? Like its says in the readme.txt...

I did that... and yes of course I read the read me as I said in the post I did everything it says, but nothing else shows up..

Is the new tab/page ticked "active"? If so then it should show up in general area of "activity stream" tab/page link.

Negative, it doesn't .. Yes I did do that as well.

Under usergroup>usergroup manager>edit admin usergroup then scroll down to twitch.tv integration and tick both buttons yes?

Yes I did, sorry I posted this in support for this. Thought I posted that I did this, I didn't . But yes I checked both.. to yes.

If you did upload everything correctly then going to www.yoursitename.com/twitch.php should bring the page up....if not then something went wrong in the upload...or you don't have twitch.php in the root dir.