Major Additions - Video-Directory Remixed

This mod has been rewritten for vB4x here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=240677

This modification is based on the Video-Directory modification by Survivor and vBPoint.org.
His mod is NOT dead, its still alive and kicking; but he has informed me that he just doesn't have the time to maintain it and give support. So until he is able to work on it agian; I've been doing a series of updates.

What is this mod?

This mod adds a fully featured and fully integrated video directory archive to your forums. Users can add their favorite videos from their favorite video service to the directory. I only support a few select hosters; but the hoster scripting is XML base, so any user can create their own scripts for any number of hosting services. The old MyVideo and Sevenload scripts from Survivor's version will still work, but they wont pull in Keyword/Tagging information, nor the video length time codes.

Basic Feature Listing:

• Fully integrated into the vBulletin user database and product manager.
• Fully phrased and built on templates for easy reskinning and styling.
• Fully administratable and a myriad of settings for personalization.
• Complete customization of permissions based on usergroups.
• Landing page for broad information and fully featured tag cloud.
• Category profiles for videos.
• Contribution profiles for users.
• Keyword profiles for tag cloud.
• Built in comment system for videos.
• Search function for titles and descriptions.
• RSS feed of videos.

Product Demo:

http://www.8wayrun.com/video.php

Installation Procedure:

1. Upload all files in the "upload" directory to your forum root.
2. CHMOD /videothumbnails/* and /includes/videoserviceapi to 777.
3. Import the product "product-videodirectory.xml" in your Product Manager.
4. Follow the on screen instructions to configure your video hoster settings.
5. Refresh your administration control panel to see the new navigation links.

NOTES:
vBulletin 3.7.0 instituted a new avatar-thumbnail system. There is a high probability that you are unaware of this new system and may have failed to setup your vBulletin to make use of it. Make sure that a directory called /thumbs is located in your avatar directory and CHMOD it to 777. Then go into Maintenance > Update Counters and run the Rebuild Custom Avatar Thumbnails process.

Upgrade Procedure:

1. Upload all files in the "upload" directory to your forum root.
2. Take note of the information stored in Limits of Videos > General Settings.
3. Import the product "product-videodirectory.xml" in your Product Manager.
4. Re-establish your previous Limits settings in Videos > General Settings.
5. Re-import ALL of your hosters and settings in Videos > Manage hosters.
   • You MUST remember to re-import your hosters after upgrading.

NOTES:
You may lose your category dataman when you upgrade. If no categories are listed after an upgrade, you will be required to rebuild your category dataman. Its very easy to rebuild it if you need to. Simply go into Videos > Manage categories, select ANY category and hit [Edit], then click [Save]. Your category dataman will automatically be rebuilt.

Roadmap for the Future:

• Moderation
• Favorites
• Playlists

Don't forget to click INSTALL!

If you want to donate, I'm all for it... as I'm an unemployed computer programmer...

[schlottkej]

Here is my redesign of the current system:

http://www.thewrestlingtalk.com/videos/

It's rather basic changes.. We moved the related/popular video portion of the sidebar to the right sidebar. This allows for more categories.


Things I'd like to see added in the future:

Auto Importing of Playlists into a category
Would love to see the progression of the "Import" feature be added to BULK loading. Would save a lot of time.

Category Tags
Top XX tags in the category being browsed

Video Linking
Sometimes a video can go into two of your categories.. allow a "linked" copy to be duplicated.

Cross Selling
Allow videos related to the video be selected to "ALWAYS" appear in related videos

Advanced Categories
Allow categories to only be displayed when they are in the parent category. Do not show every category under a tree.

Why? This allows for more organization within the menu and allows for a more user friendly experience once you have a lot of videos.

Example?


Auto Tagging
Based on current tags. If the title contains tags they are added on import.

Why? The way Youtube does it, each word is its own tag.

Example? Say its a video on Blue Colored Contacts... having three tags, "Blue", "Colored", and "Contacts" is useless, but if you had tags already set as, "Blue Contacts", "Colored Contacts", and "Blue Colored Contacts", you'd have three very useful keyword phrases.


YouTube Search
Using the Youtube API, call in a search to place results AFTER the current on site results.

Why? Provides a quality set of secondary results.

Example Possibly using the other vBTube search script, updated for the new API.


Automated News Feed
Set up a daily CRON to pull in categories with more than X videos added to them.

Why? Keeps the news/announcement portion fresh without effort.


Add to Calendar
Allow the user to set an event ID the video is for and show it on the calendar.

Media RSS
Add media RSS output of the embedded player on the video page.

Why?
Allows for easy porting to Wordpress blogs and other RSS syndication.

Example?
Keep the videos "in house" using JWPlayer to pull the videos in and allow RSS embedding in the same player.

[schlottkej]

Is there a list of available hosters somewhere?

[schlottkej]

Originally Posted by Jaxel

I will add hosters for ANYTHING you can give me an RSS FEED for. That includes audio and pictures.

http://www.flowrestling.org/rss

http://blip.tv/rss

[kyle]

I like were this hack is going


Question: Would you are would you be able to refer anyone who could build us a custom media center based on your hack. Paid of course

1: we need members to be able to upload video?s as you have your hack.

2: would like a deferent format, were the video chosen shows on top of the list of video?s like http://www.cnn.com/video/

3: we have several companies who broadcast intraday news clips pertaining to our sites nich, they have given us the permission to use their clips but all their video players are deferent styles \], what I would like is a solutions to aggregate these video?s into our main media center were the latest video from anyone of these sources will automatically show at our center in our player.

[Infopro]

My forum theme doesn't change on the video directory pages. Is there something I'm missing to get this to use whatever theme a user is using?

Thanks in advance.

More coffee I think...

It's a setting.

[Jaxel]

Originally Posted by schlottkej

http://www.flowrestling.org/rss

http://blip.tv/rss

I can't do anything with these... I need an RSS feed to a SINGLE video.

[final kaoss]

can you tell me how to edit this to bring videos from

*gamespot
*ign
*g4tv.com
*http://cinemassacre.com/ (i suppose they use blip.tv)
*http://www.gametrailers.com
?

[MonkYZ]

Is there any chance for an update ? It's almost an year now... we keep it mostly for demo purposes and users are getting anxious about not beeing able to comment/post in video-directory remixed. Thx and keep up the good work !

[Jaxel]

Anyone wanna beta test the new version? Its not phrased AT ALL.

Contact me on AIM: BadBreath911

[final kaoss]

I finally thought of something this mod needs, sorting videos by letter