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...

[MagicThemeParks]

Jaxel, just viewed the page in Chrome and noticed the extra space in the 'recent videos' portion. Is that what you mean?

[Veer]

Yes, I see the same thing in Firefox and Chrome, Using IE it has no extra space but the video play page in IE is strange.

[inciarco]

Jaxel, would it be possible to include an Option to Upload and Edit the Image related to the Video?

This Would Allow to use Videos from Services such as redtube, where one can Create the Code to Embed the Video, but as the Image can't be Extracted from the Video Hosting System then the User would be able to Upload the URL for the Image of the Video or from the Computer.

I Hope you can Include this Option; I remember in the past that I managed to Create the redtube's Video Embedding File but the Image was always missing as the Mod currently don't offer the Option to Manually Upload the Image from URL or from Computer.

My Best Regards.

[Verionia]

I can't wait for the vb 4.0 release, I am so excited! When will it come out?

[inciarco]

Originally Posted by Verionia

I can't wait for the vb 4.0 release, I am so excited! When will it come out?

I Think That If You and Every Person that is Trying to Press the Upgrade of this Mod to the vB4 Version, Donate to Jaxel, I Think He'd be More Motivated to Dedicate More of His Time to Make that Version Upgrade Sooner.

Jaxel mentioned 4 days Ago that He's Unemployed, and He'll be Happy to Receive Your Donations. Ask Him How and Where You Can Donate to Him.

And I'm unemployed again... so donations would be greatly appreciated!

My Best Regards, and Special Thanks to Jaxel. :up:

[AllinJac]

Ok I have gone through and read more then 50 pages so I am sure that the answer was not in there...

Are you going to provide any support for Video Uploading of MP4s?

I am not sure as to what to do right now as I really like the engine of Media Lite with it's upload features but LOVE the design and layout of your product...

I know you are not supporting 3 but that is what I have to make a decision on now as we can not update for awhile as some of the mods we HAVE to have are not working on 4 as of yet...

Thanks for any input or advice anyone can give me as I have to find a solution that will allow me to:

1. Upload MP4 files - we do a lot of training videos using JING and need to post them diretly.
2. Would love to be able to use the best Player in the Market JW Player and its mods...

Thanks for your help and time, again ANYONE feel free to answer this...

[Jaxel]

This mod does not support directly uploading media. However, if you have MP4 media, you can EASILY setup some sort of free flash player (I recommend JW Player at http://www.longtailvideo.com/). Then simply add that as a service host.

[Metal-R-US]

it's seems like if you report a video and a thread is created that thread is pretty much permanent as the report thread for that video and doesn't get updated when the video is reported again.

problem scenario: some video gets reported for some reason and is dealt with. then later the same video gets reported again. a new thread isn't created and the original one doesn't get updated.

even deleting the thread doesn't help, you only get a "No Thread specified" message.

[Jaxel]

The report thread function was build by Surviver, the previous author. With the new version I am working on, with is 100% my own, reporting will be handled through EMAILS (the same way as when someone reports a thread), instead of creating a brand new thread.

Okay, I need help with 2 things right now... First I need to figure out how to do HTACCESS... lets say I have the url http://test.8wayrun.com/media.php?do=details&mid=87, I would like to be able to access the same URL from http://test.8wayrun.com/media/m87, how would I do this? I have tried the following, but it doesnt work...

ReWriteRule ^media/m([0-9]+).* media.php?do=details&mid=$1[QSA]

Next question... I am trying to parse some info from ustream... below is the feed

<xml> 
<results> 
	<title><![CDATA[NECX LF Dreamkiller VS Rigel]]></title> 
	<description><![CDATA[NECX]]></description> 
	<lengthInSecond>500.884</lengthInSecond> 
	<imageUrl> 
		<medium><![CDATA[http://static-cdn1.ustream.tv/videopic/0/1/2/2724/2724048/1_1121923_2724048_320x240_b_1:1.jpg]]></medium> 
	</imageUrl> 
	<tags> 
		<array key="0"><![CDATA[8wayrun]]></array> 
		<array key="1"><![CDATA[NECX]]></array> 
		<array key="2"><![CDATA[Soulcalibur]]></array> 
	</tags> 
</results>
</xml>

Getting the majority of the information has been easy...
Title = $arr['results']['title'];
Description = $arr['results']['description'];
Thumb = $arr['results']['imageUrl']['medium'];
Length = $arr['results']['lengthInSecond'];

However, I can't figure out how to get the information for the tags. I basically need to extract the tags into an array, and then implode it into a string with a comma delimiting each entry. Does anyone know how I would do this?

[AllinJac]

Originally Posted by Jaxel

This mod does not support directly uploading media. However, if you have MP4 media, you can EASILY setup some sort of free flash player (I recommend JW Player at http://www.longtailvideo.com/). Then simply add that as a service host.

Brilliant!

Yeah that is all I need to upload is mpeg4...

And yes, I agree the best player in the market from my research is JW Player!

Have you or ANYONE here ever done a new Service Host with specifically the JW Player and how it would look?

I am not a programmer by any means but I understand the basics... My programmer will be here today but be gone for the next 5 days and I would love to make this work before he gets back so I can start uploading videos without having to go through Youtube directly!!!

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EDIT: I just found this to set up a JW Player on your vBulletin...

Does this look and sound right and what you were referring to by setting up JW Player... Now I just need to figure out how to do a Host???



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Again,

Jaxel thank you for chiming in! I know you are busy and full steam ahead on version 4.x so thanks for taking the time to still respond here!

Thanks,