AnyMedia BBCode for 3.5.x

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# Jun.7th, 2006 17:00 GMT+8 #
# AnyMedia BBCode 3.0.4 Release #
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@ Overview
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Products to Import: 1
Template Modifications: 4
File to Upload: 7 (2 swf, 1 gif, 3 php, 1 js)

@ Description
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Use only ONE bbcode to post almost 60 kinds of file,
and flash videos from more than 10 sites.

@ Credits
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Author of the Hack -- Crist Chsu
Author of Flash Single MP3 Player -- Jeroenwijering.COM
Author of Flash Video Player -- Jeroenwijering.COM
Author of PHP BEncode Library -- Gerard Krijgsman
Special thanks to Andreas's great suggestion, which made the mod become a plugin.

@ Translations
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Simplified Chinese by Crist Chsu (http://www.QuChao.com)
Traditional Chinese by Crist Chsu (http://www.QuChao.com)
German by Oberguru (http://www.webgurus.de)
Arabic by Coffee (http://www.shinqit.net)
Hebrew by Dacho (http://www.dacho.co.il)
Italian by Fulvio di Stefano (http://www.internetdiffusion.com)

@ Supported Extensions
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Adobe Flash:
swf, spl, flv

Quick Time:
mov, qt, mqv, mpeg, mpg, m1s, m1v, m1a, m75, m15, mp2, mpm, mpv, mpa, flc, fli, cel, rtsp, rts, 3gp, 3gpp, 3g2, 3gp2, sdv, amc, mp4, sdp

Real Media:
rm, rmvb, ra, rv, ram, smil

Windows Media:
mp3, wma, wav, ogg, ape, mid, midi, asf, asx, wm, wmv, wsx, wax, wvx, avi

Adobe PDF:
pdf, fdf, xfdf, xdp, xfd

Image File:
gif, jpg, jpeg, bmp, png, xpm

P2P File:
torrent, emule, foxy, pplive

@ Supported Flash Video Sites
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Google (http://video.google.com/)
Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/)
vSocial (http://www.vsocial.com/)
iFilm (http://www.ifilm.com/)
MetaCafe (http://www.metacafe.com/)
DailyMotion (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/)
CurrentTV (http://www.current.tv/studio/)
Vimeo (http://www.vimeo.com/)
Sharkle (http://www.sharkle.com/video/)
FreeVideoBlog (http://video.freevideoblog.com/)
MyVideoDe (http://www.myvideo.de/)

@ Features
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You're allowed to ...
1. Custom the tag name;
2. Custom the title of the player;
3. Decide which usergroup could see the download link;
4. Use Flash Single Mp3 Player to play the mp3 file;
5. Custom the width & height of the media;
6. Decide whether to make the media autostart by default;
7. Decide whether to collapse the player box by default;
8. Play the Google Videos via proxy;
9. Auto-detect the attachment type;
10. Use AnyMedia player to play attachments;
11. Custom the default value of loop;
12. Filter the AnyMedia BBCodes in Quote tags;
13. Choose which extension could be supported;
14. Choose whether to use AnyMedia Player or not for each supported video site;

@ How to Use
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Tag without options:
[MEDIA]url_of_the_file[/MEDIA]

ex.
[MEDIA]http://server/file.mp3[/MEDIA]
Shown as a mp3 player (Use the flash mp3 player by default).

Tag with options:
[MEDIA="width, height, autostart, loop, extension"]url_of_the_file[/MEDIA]
[MEDIA="width, height, autostart, loop"]url_of_the_file[/MEDIA]
[MEDIA="width, height, autostart"]url_of_the_file[/MEDIA]
[MEDIA="width, height"]url_of_the_file[/MEDIA]

ex.
[MEDIA="300,380,yes,2,rm"]http://server/file.mp3[/MEDIA]
It will use the real player to play the file.mp3,
the object is 300px width, 380px height,
it will autostart and will repeat for twice.

[MEDIA=250,150,0,3]http://server/file.flv[/MEDIA]
It will use the flash player to play the file.flv,
the object is 250px width, 150px height,
it'll NOT autostart but will repeat for 3 times.

[MEDIA=400,480,false]http://server/file.swf[/MEDIA]
It will use the flash player to play the file.swf,
the object is 400px width, 480px height,
and it'll NOT autostart.

[MEDIA=421,211]http://server/file.pdf[/MEDIA]
It will post the pdf object on the page,
the object is 421px width, 211px height.

Other Rules:
1.WIDTH and HEIGHT are both required if you want to add options；
2.Available values for the AUTOSTART option: 1, true & yes.
3.Separate the options with commas.

@ Change Logs
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[1.1.0]
[BUG] Hide the "download link" will show a warning
[NEW] Usergroup Permission Restriction

[1.2.0]
[DEL] Codes Modifications (Thanks to Andreas's suggestion)
[CHG] Allow every group to use anymedia by default
[NEW] Cache the Templates

[1.3.0]
[CHG] Use Google Video Player to play the Google's.
[NEW] Allow to play the wsx, wav and the flv files from google, youtube, vsocial .
[NEW] Allow you to custom the tag name.
[NEW] Allow you to set the title for the player box.
[NEW] Allow you to collapse the player box by default.
[BUG] Playing a WMV file with no pictures.

[2.0.0]
[CHG] Change the method of loading, Fix the "Bug" that long loading.
[NEW] "Fix" the 'Activating Active Content' issues in the new IE Update. （It means that, if you've installed the new IE update, there's no need to Click the media object before you want to play it ）

[2.1.0]
[BUG] Fix the bug that cannot autoplay a wmv (& etc.) file.
[BUG] Fix the bug that when custom the video size of google/youtube/vsocial will get a non-supportted error.
[NEW] Let you to choose whether to play a google video through a proxy. It's useful for Chinese users.

[2.2.0]
[BUG] Fix the bug that cannot autoplay a wmv on Firefox.
[BUG] Fix the bug that auto play a google/youtube/vsocial video when disable it.

[2.3.0]
[BUG] Fix a tiny bug with bt parsing.
[NEW] Support the attachments from your own forum, and you could switch it off.

[3.0.0]
[CHG] Rebuild the code of the whole AnyMedia.
[CHG] Use flvplayer to play Google Video again.
[BUG] Fix the bug that error with parsing when allow_url_fopen's off.
[BUG] Fix a bug with url parsing.
[BUG] Fix the parsing error of youtube video.
[NEW] eMule & foxy types added.
[NEW] loop option added.
[NEW] Use AnyMedia Player to play the attachment when upload one.
[NEW] 8 More flash video sites supported.
[NEW] Chinese versions added.

[3.0.1]
[BUG] Fixed the bug that cannot autoplay a wmv (& etc.) file.
[BUG] Fixed the bug that always insert a tag named [media].
[CHG] Hide AnyMedia button in editor when disable it.
[CHG] Hide AnyMedia Player for unsupported attachment.
[NEW] Multi-Language Documents added. It will auto-detect the language when you open it.
[LAN] German version by Oberguru (http://www.webgurus.de) added.
[LAN] Arabic version by Coffee (http://shinqit.net) added.

[3.0.2]
[BUG] Fixed the bug that cannot disable extensions in admincp .
[BUG] Fixed the bug with youtube playing session.
[CHG] Used a special player to play youtube video.
[NEW] Added an option to switch the youtube video playing method.
[NEW] You could use 'Ctrl + wheel' to resize the image now.
[NEW] New option added in admincp, you could choose whether to disable AnyMedia BBCode in Quote tags.

[3.0.3]
[BUG] Fixed the bug with mp3's (flash player) autoplay issue.
[BUG] Fixed the bug with flv's autoplay issue.
[BUG] Fixed the bug with 3gp files' parsing error.
[BUG] Fixed the bug with iamges' resize issue.
[BUG] Fixed the bug with attachments' autoplay issue.
[NEW] Support the latest Google Movie Preview (http://video.google.com/movietrailers.html).
[LAN] Hebrew version by Dacho (http://www.dacho.co.il) added.

[3.0.4]
[BUG] Get Google Video back to work again.
[NEW] PPLive supported. You could watch the World Cup Live on your board with your members now. Which team will be the biggest winner this time? :banana: (It can only work with IE, sigh...:surprised: )
[NEW] New option group added in admincp, you could choose whether to use build-in player for each supported sites.


@ Frequently Asked Questions
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Q: I got white screen when playing a google video.
A: AnyMedia fetch the correct video url, but there's sth wrong with the flvplayer.swf, try to refresh the page to solve it.

Q: When using mp3player.swf to play mp3, it's played fast/slowly.
A: Flash doesn't support vbr (variable bit rate) mp3 files.It only support a mp3 with a fixed bitrate of 64/96/128 kbps ,a sample frequency of 22.05kHz and joint stereo. To solve it, turn the option off in admincp to make it be played by WMP.

Q: I have to click play button twice to play a google video.
A: Emmm... Even using the google player, you also have to click twice. I don't know why, and I'm trying to fixed it. If you know, just tell me.

Q: The supported extensions checkbox are always unchecked even if I check them all.
A: The permission cache is not updated. Overwrite the 'includes/xml/bitfield_anymedia.xml' file, and log into your admincp to visit 'admincp/index.php?do=buildbitfields' to rebuild the permission cache.

Q: When I use build-in player to play Youtube, it will be loading all the time.
A: To use the build-in player to play Youtube videos, your server have to enable the 'allow_url_fopen' option, or enable the 'fsockopen / curl_init' functions. If failed, turn the 'Use AnyMedia Player for Youtube Video' option off in admincp.

Q: I cannot get the PPLive working with my Firefox or etc.
A: As far as I know, the pplive object can only work with IE. And if you know how to embed it on FireFox, just tell me.

@ Todo
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1. Add a Playlist.
2. Integrate it with CMPS, Link & Download Sys, and etc.
3. read ID3 tag.

@ Notes
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1. We need other translations, if you made one, just PM me.

If you like the hack, Please click .

I DO NOT know whether I should update the hack.
I'm not a coder of vBulletin-Chinese Team now, as I left there weeks ago.
Sorry about this, and I'll tell you how the update's going if it's really on the way.

[Crist]

Originally Posted by G3MM4

I have installed this and it works to an extent where I can get the player to show but my movie won't play.

I uploaded an AVI movie (made it with FRAPS in a video game for testing purposes, then compressed it) to the server (on my test board), then typed in a new thread [MEDIA]http://url/of/movie[/MEDIA] (replace http://url/of/movie with actual URL) then hit the Submit Reply button.

I got the player but not the movie. Nothing happens, the movie does not play, the play button is greyed out. Only the Stop button worked. When I pressed that (using both IE6 and Firefox), the browser crashed.

I tried clicking the download link and it worked, it opened my default media player (Windows Media Player), but the movie does not play. I just see a transparent screen and it says at the bottom "Connecting...".

I've read the instructions, and can't seem to see where I'm going wrong. I don't have the time to read the entire thread so can anyone please point me in the right direction to a solution?

I guess that there's sth wrong with your AVI file.
You make it yourself?
try to use another AVI file to test the function.

[Crist]

Originally Posted by hotwheels

hey crist? If you get a chance, can you look and see what it would take to be able to play www.zippyvideos.com video's........? Don't go out of your way by any means, just curious if you have time, to maybe look into it.....

thanks, doug

the site banned the ip from my place.
I'll try to see into it thr a proxy

[Tulsa]

It says a simple .wav file is unsupported?

What do I need to do to get it supported?

[osso12]

Crist, Hi!
My site is www.smokinchevy.com
You had helped me with an issue I was having before.
Now, I have upgraded with the new version.
I have 2 questions or issues I wonder if you can help me straiten out.
I had reinstalled it since you had worked on it last, and now im having issues again.
1. When I try to play an mpg file, it does not work. It just sits there with no play button. I Have tried switching back in forth btween windows player and flash player in acp, but does not make a difference.
2. Sometimes on some file uploads, the player will be there, but when you push on the "play" button, nothing happens at all. The button just goes back to where it was, like it was not pushed. Sometimes the wmv files work, sometimes they do not. Seems like if the wmv file is a long video, the player will not play it.
I need to be able to play BOTH wmv and mpg. Can you comment on what I need to do?
The permissions on all the groups seem to be ok.
You may use your log in if you like and go to my test sig area to see what is happening. http://www.smokinchevy.com
Thanks Crist, youre the best!

[G3MM4]

Originally Posted by Crist

I guess that there's sth wrong with your AVI file.
You make it yourself?
try to use another AVI file to test the function.

I think I know what the problem is, I tested this with another AVI and it worked perfectly. My AVI was too large... even after some compression it was something like 34 MB in size. The other AVI was like 8 MB in size. Going to try and compress my AVI more then I will try again.

Just another question, I will be using vBadvanced, and wondered if there is a way of getting the movie to show up on the vBa page? I checked on http://www.vbadvanced.com and there doesn't seem to be anything on there. I only found this http://www.vbadvanced.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14076 but it was related to videos in general, not to this extension. It would be cool if someone could write a module or something for vBa and AnyMedia.

[NR Fatal]

anything else I need to do to update my stuff, from last week's to yesterdays update, besides importing and overwriting the anymedia_product.eml file?

[hotwheels]

Originally Posted by Crist

the site banned the ip from my place.
I'll try to see into it thr a proxy

Thanks crist.........let me know if there is anything i can do to help on this......I have a majority of my personal race video on this site, and it would be kewl to get it to work.


doug

[defcon_420]

Originally Posted by osso12

Crist, Hi!
My site is www.smokinchevy.com
You had helped me with an issue I was having before.
Now, I have upgraded with the new version.
I have 2 questions or issues I wonder if you can help me straiten out.
I had reinstalled it since you had worked on it last, and now im having issues again.
1. When I try to play an mpg file, it does not work. It just sits there with no play button. I Have tried switching back in forth btween windows player and flash player in acp, but does not make a difference.
2. Sometimes on some file uploads, the player will be there, but when you push on the "play" button, nothing happens at all. The button just goes back to where it was, like it was not pushed. Sometimes the wmv files work, sometimes they do not. Seems like if the wmv file is a long video, the player will not play it.
I need to be able to play BOTH wmv and mpg. Can you comment on what I need to do?
The permissions on all the groups seem to be ok.
You may use your log in if you like and go to my test sig area to see what is happening. http://www.smokinchevy.com
Thanks Crist, youre the best!

not sure about your .mpg file but i would say that you dont have the codec's installed on your computer for the video's that fail to play.. some people encode the video into formats that may not have the codec installed in your machine.. its like putting a square peg in a round hole.. it wont work

[osso12]

Originally Posted by defcon_420

not sure about your .mpg file but i would say that you dont have the codec's installed on your computer for the video's that fail to play.. some people encode the video into formats that may not have the codec installed in your machine.. its like putting a square peg in a round hole.. it wont work

Thanks..neh...that aint it.
It was playing mpg untill i changed something..like a tag that was /ANYMEDIA
or something of the sort. I changed something, but crist had it working for me and it would play anything on my site without a problem. Not any more.

[Crist]

Originally Posted by Tulsa

It says a simple .wav file is unsupported?

What do I need to do to get it supported?

Sorry about this,
I forgot to add it into the type list.

Download the zip file again and re-import the xml,
will fix this prob.