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;
}

[Jaxel]

Originally Posted by DAMINK

I uninstalled this mod. It did not suit my needs. However i am getting sql errors all the time now.

Invalid 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 vblanguage
					WHERE languageid = 1;

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

Any way to stop this?

What page are you getting this error on? Did you disable your widgets and blocks?

[DAMINK]

@Jaxel. I am not getting it on any specific page.
This is simple the email the software is emailing me.
I am getting approx 100 of these a day currently.
No physical errors on the forum though as far as i am aware.
As for diabling any widgets or blocks. No not that i am aware.

*UPDATE

First i noticed it was the same ip triggering the errors. Turns out it was google. (oops on my part not updating the robots.txt file anyway)
I was able to determine it was the media.php file that was causing the error.
Deleted and it appears at this point to be problem solved.
Shouldn't this file have been removed when i uninstalled?

[your24hourstore]

Originally Posted by DAMINK

@Jaxel. I am not getting it on any specific page.
This is simple the email the software is emailing me.
I am getting approx 100 of these a day currently.
No physical errors on the forum though as far as i am aware.
As for diabling any widgets or blocks. No not that i am aware.

*UPDATE

First i noticed it was the same ip triggering the errors. Turns out it was google. (oops on my part not updating the robots.txt file anyway)
I was able to determine it was the media.php file that was causing the error.
Deleted and it appears at this point to be problem solved.
Shouldn't this file have been removed when i uninstalled?

uninstalling a mod will not delete files you manually uploaded to your server. to completely remove a product you must also manually remove all files you uploaded. on all mods

[fulviods]

we cant add categories with less than 5 characters! where i can change that??

[RoAjayson]

For those having issues with uStream and possibly other services not playing in IE8 but working with all other browsers you can try the following. Going in to media_service and changing the svcMovie row from

http://www.ustream.tv/flash/video/{serviceVAL}?autoplay={apTF}

to

http://www.ustream.tv/flash/video/{serviceVAL}

For whatever reason Internet Explorer isn't playing nice with any "?*=" and simply removing them seems to fix the issue. At least I know it's working for uStream. It might for other services as well. Hope this works for anyone else who is having an issue with this. I know that doing this videos still play just fine on Firefox, Internet Explorer 8, and Safari. I haven't tested to make sure Chrome still functions fine by removing part of that code but I assume it does.

[RobbieZ]

Ive tried writing a few hoster files using your template.

But i keep getting this error.

Could not parse media URL.

When I up the new xml hoster file do I re-install the main xml again ?

[Max Paint]

Would like to use this mod, but there's still the charset problem, so this mod "destroys" letters and signs like ??????

Hope this will be fixed in later versions.

Btw: There's also a problem with announcement topics. If you have many tags for a video they'll destroy the design of the forum if you view the topic

[WeMovie.co.uk]

I love this mod!

But... when displaying a video on the forum using the code from the media library, the video is too big and overlaps.
See this link for an example:
http://www.wemovie.co.uk/showthread....-2010-%28UK%29

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[your24hourstore]

Originally Posted by WeMovie.co.uk

I love this mod!

But... when displaying a video on the forum using the code from the media library, the video is too big and overlaps.
See this link for an example:
http://www.wemovie.co.uk/showthread....-2010-%28UK%29

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

looks ok in media just has this problem in forum threads looks like, there was a bug in 403 that did a weird wrap around thing and made posts all weird, wonder if it was fixed in the new version your on 404?.

not sure since i don't run 404

[EquinoxWorld]

Hello Jaxel, I was wondering if you can help us out with this one; we have a bit of a concern with the search feature. Let's say someone wants to search for and episode of "Bleach" and the episode 240 . Now let's say the actual video is named "bleach - 240" ; if you search for just "bleach 240" (without the dash) the video will not appear in search; if you type "bleach - 240" exactly how the name is then the video will come up in the search results. My question would be how can I broaden the search to include only letter maybe or not so specific to allow for more results possibilities maybe? Any light yourself or anyone can shine on our concern please don't be shy. We have close to 20,000 videos and it is very hard to find a specific one because of the nature of our implementation of the mod so any help we can receive would be immensly appreciated. Thank you for your time.