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.

[Amavisca]

Originally Posted by ChiliVB

Upgraded to 3.0.4 and everything is okay but the Google player. Still getting the white screen of death if the AnyMedia player is enabled for Google. And an error on page load if the Any Media player is disabled for the Google sites.

I tried disabling the Any Media player for Google Sites in the settings. After this when loading a page with a google video it gives a browser error in lower left corner (in Internet Explorer) and the page will not finish loading. The file starts autoplaying (your can hear it) but you cannot see the postbit or anything on the page. I have autoplay set to No in the ACP. I also tried enabling/disabling autoplay and google site settings to see if it was a caching issue and I cleared the brower cache on 2 PC's to see it would help. No luck.

I'll continue to watch her for fixes.

In IE, I got the same problem with 3.03 and even after 3.04 . Cris can you look into this problem??? I am sure there more ppl have the same problem like us


Ps: firefox work fine tho. but not IE

[Andyf]

Installed!!

Great hack, worked first time.

Many thanks.

Andy

[redlabour]

Will it work in the Future with vBulletin 3.6 ?

And can you please integrate *.m4v Format for Podcasts ?

[Danmaxito]

This is great!!! It works good for the video tutorials we will be having on our forum.

[Steve56]

Can anyone help me please?

I've installed this hack for 3.5 VB. I've made the template edits, installed the pluglin and basically followed the instructions.

The only problem is that I can't find anything to do with the usergroup permissions. I can edit the options via V-bulletin Options.

Also nothing is happening when I use the Media Tags.

I tried rebuiding the forum cache but as ever that didn't work.

any suggestions?

[monstergamer]

it does not work for me...i do not see a option under the usergroups.
i used the rebuilt feature and nothing

[friendly]

I just had this hack installed with VB 3.6 and when I enter a YouTube URL, the black screen displays "FAILED"

Thoughts?

[friendly]

This has been taken care of -- sorry.

[Crist]

Originally Posted by isonline

Crist,

Thanks, it worked but I have another issue.

I want to disable Download Link under the player, so I have this settings:

Show the download link? NO

And I have also disabled the Download Link for each usergroup. However, the link still shows under the player.

Have you ever modified the template named 'anymedia' ?
restore it, and that may fix this issue.

Originally Posted by isonline

Finally, is there anyway to add M3U file format as well because I will need to enable M3U streaming by running a batch of MP3 files rather than one file at a time. Is there a way to do that?

Thanks a lot for your help,

A.J

yes,working on it,
will add it into the next version

[Crist]

Originally Posted by djwins

Two suggestions for 3.0.5
1) Stop the google video player from autoplaying
2) When using the windows media player for audio files, it would be nice if the video window didn't display.

Keep up the GREAT work!

1. it's a hard work for testing, google banned the ip from China.
But i'll try.

2.emmmmmmm.... you could use the options to define the width and height,
and i'm planning to set diffierent size between audio & video.