Major Additions - 8WayRun.Com - Media Library

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This is a new modification, spawning from the old VB 3.x Video Directory modifications.
For all intents and purposes, both my old Video Directory Remixed mod, and Survivor's original Video Directory mod have been discontinued. Neither of us are maintaining these older versions, they will not receive any future updates and we will not be providing any support. This version has a new name because it has been completely rewritten from scratch and is not being built on Survivor's old code. Because of this, if you are upgrading to this new version, from the old version, be sure to read this entire post in order to understand the upgrade process.

What is this mod?
Simply put, this mod is a directory for media. It supports URL inputs, in order to extract meta data and directorize media into a simple and easy to understand library. Users can add their favorite media from a select few online distribution centers (such as Youtube or Vimeo) and categorize and tag them as they see fit. This mod offers rudimentary support for the hosting of local media. An administrator can upload a media to the /customVID/ (default) directory; then add the media to the library using the URL code of "local:filename". Media hosted locally will be displayed using JWPlayer, but will not provide meta data, so that kind of information will need to be entered manually.

Demo:

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

Features:

• Integrated directly into the vBulletin user database and product manager.
• Fully phrased and built on tempaltes for easy re-skinning and styling.
• Simple to use administration features and usergroup permission settings.
• Landing page with the most recent, most popular and highest rated media.
• Ability to add media into a single category, while adding multiple tags.
• Ability to browse media through categories, tags, and user contributions.
• Summary tag cloud with a link to the entire list of tags in the system.
• Comment and rating system based on AJAX including graceful degredation.
• Individual RSS Feeds for newest videos, categories, tags and user media.
• Search function for titles and descriptions.

Installation:

If you are upgrading from before version 1.1, please install that version first.

1. Upload all the files in the "upload" directory of the attached zip file to your forum root.
2. CHMOD the /customVID/thumbs/ directory to full read/write/execute 777 permissions.
3. CHMOD the /customVID/sitemap/ directory to full read/write/execute 777 permissions.
4. Import the product file called "product-medialibrary.xml" in the Product Manager of vBulletin.
5. Set your usergroup permissions and media library settings in your administration control panel.
6. OPTIONAL: Enable the "Generate XML Media Sitemap" scheduled task in your administration control panel.
   
   NOTES: Make sure you decide what you wish to use for your thumbnail quality setting. By default, thumbnails are saved at 50% quality. At 50%, thumbnails will only be 2kb in size, but at the expense of quality. At 100%, thumbnails will be about 15kb in size, but will have the highest quality. I recommend setting it to 80%, which would leave thumbnails at 5kb in size with still excellent quality.
   
   Every time you change your thumbnail quality setting, you will need to run the "Rebuild Media Thumbnails" to see any changes.

Upgrading from VDR:

1. The "video*" tables from your previous installation of VDR need to exist in your database.
2. Enable the "media ADMIN import" plugin in the plugin manager of your control panel.
3. Run the "Import Media from VDR" process in your update counters menu in maintenance.
4. Disable the "media ADMIN import" plugin in the plugin manager of your control panel.
5. Run the "Rebuild Media Thumbnails" process in your update counters menu in maintenance.
6. You may now uninstall VDR once you confirm everything has been imported as intended.
   
   NOTES: You will mostly likely get at least one error while rebuilding media thumbnails...
   
   When you get an error, click the details link for that media. If the media displays some sort of error such as "This video has been removed" or "This video no longer exist", then that means that media is gone and you'll be unable to generate a thumbnail for that particular media. Use the available options on that media's detail page to DELETE it from your library. Then go back to your browser window which is rebuilding thumbnails and click the "retry from this position" link.
   
   If you got an error for a media, but after clicking the details link you can find no obvious error with the video; then the error could have just been a simple syn/ack failure. Just click the "retry from this position" link and the system will try to rebuild that thumbnail again.

Known Bugs:

There is a conflict with this modification and some of Valter's VSA modifications that will prevent navbar permissions from being handled correctly. I don't know exactly who's fault it is; but I'm pretty sure there are no errors in my code that would be causing this problem. There is a work around for this however.

Admin Control Panel > Plugins & Products > Plugin Manager > "media NAVTAB"

Find the code:

    $perms = media_permissions();

Replace with:

$perms['rate'] = true;
$perms['comment'] = true;
$perms['submit'] = true;
$perms['playlist'] = true;
 
if (is_member_of($vbulletin->userinfo, explode(',','5,6')))
{
    $perms['modtags'] = true;
    $perms['modcategory'] = true;
    $perms['modservice'] = true;
}

[session-one]

Originally Posted by Jaxel

Next version will be out in a few weeks... will feature playlists and boolean searching.

can you also make it compatiable with more media sharing sites...such as 4shared, facebook video, myspace video, etc because it would make life a whole lot easier for me.. If someone has already figured out how to add custom sites please pm me and teach me or post here for all

[Lizard King]

Originally Posted by Jaxel

Next version will be out in a few weeks... will feature playlists and boolean searching.

If you want , please feel free to add the modifications i supplied within http://www.vbseo.com/f23/media-libra...e-rules-43754/ so you can get your modification vBSEO support by default.

Additionally if you will like to add a latest commented articles section on media homepage , i can supply the code to you.

[your24hourstore]

Originally Posted by EquinoxWorld

Hello, If I wanted to add the Media Sidebar into a widget for the CMS , how would I go about doing so? I tried adding the template code of 8WR_media_SIDEBAR and also just added the {vb:raw sidebar} into a static HTML widget but no luck. Anyone got any ideas it would really be helpful. Thanks Jaxel.

the code is posted and you will have to probibly read every page to find it but it does work if you add it to widget or sidebar look around page 12 to 40

[EquinoxWorld]

Originally Posted by harleyparts

the code is posted and you will have to probibly read every page to find it but it does work if you add it to widget or sidebar look around page 12 to 40

I was able to find the sidebar for CMS but for recently added videos . I'm talking about adding the actual sidebar that is in media.php home, with the category and top contributers. Is there any way to make this happen?.

Also I know I've read this here before but just can't locate the post. I'm getting an error when trying to edit the category that says the name is too short when in fact it's longer than the minimum characters. Where would I go to edit these values of minimum characters for category name and description?

[Jaxel]

Originally Posted by Lizard King

If you want , please feel free to add the modifications i supplied within http://www.vbseo.com/f23/media-libra...e-rules-43754/ so you can get your modification vBSEO support by default.

Additionally if you will like to add a latest commented articles section on media homepage , i can supply the code to you.

I don't have vbseo... can't read vbseo threads...

[Xencored]

Originally Posted by Animemike

Hey is there a Way to Clear all Favorites from all videos
Ive found a bug and some members boosted the "Most Popular Media" up by doing this

When Guests can rate the videos they can also add them as Favorites but they can add it over and over again and it clocks them up

Thanks

any info on this please also like i said its a bug for you..

[your24hourstore]

Originally Posted by EquinoxWorld

I was able to find the sidebar for CMS but for recently added videos . I'm talking about adding the actual sidebar that is in media.php home, with the category and top contributers. Is there any way to make this happen?.

Also I know I've read this here before but just can't locate the post. I'm getting an error when trying to edit the category that says the name is too short when in fact it's longer than the minimum characters. Where would I go to edit these values of minimum characters for category name and description?

not sure about custom sidebars, sure it could be done but whats posted is a widget for cms and a forum sideblock option for forum sideblock
as far as the error it may be conflicting here in general settings
admincp/settings/options

Message Posting and Editing Options

Minimum Characters Per Post 10 set this lower<---------------

[session-one]

Originally Posted by session-one

can you also make it compatiable with more media sharing sites...such as 4shared, facebook video, myspace video, etc because it would make life a whole lot easier for me.. If someone has already figured out how to add custom sites please pm me and teach me or post here for all

bump

[mgcom]

getting this DB error after uninstalling it ..........

nvalid SQL:

SELECT languageid,
phrasegroup_global AS phrasegroup_global,
phrasegroup_8WR_media AS phrasegroup_8WR_media,
phrasegroup_posting AS phrasegroup_posting,
options AS lang_options,
languagecode AS lang_code,
charset AS lang_charset,
locale AS lang_locale,
imagesoverride AS lang_imagesoverride,
dateoverride AS lang_dateoverride,
timeoverride AS lang_timeoverride,
registereddateoverride AS lang_registereddateoverride,
calformat1override AS lang_calformat1override,
calformat2override AS lang_calformat2override,
logdateoverride AS lang_logdateoverride,
decimalsep AS lang_decimalsep,
thousandsep AS lang_thousandsep
FROM language
WHERE languageid = 1;

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'phrasegroup_8WR_media' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054

[mgcom]

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