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;
}

[iask]

Media URL contained invalid data.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGpLHj-MVtk

[Lee Roberts]

Jaxel, i'v got two things. If you have the time could you give me an idea on what i need to do to fix them please. Great MOD by the way !

1.
When i click the "Click here to restore all services in the "/media/xml" directory to their default settings."

I am getting the following error:

Database error in vBulletin 4.0.6:

Invalid SQL:
UPDATE media_service SET
svcName = 'YouTube',
svcRegex = 'http://[a-z]*?[\\.]?youtube\\.[a-z]*?/watch\\?v=([\\w-]*)',
svcURL = 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v={serviceVAL}',
svcFeed = 'http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/{serviceVAL}',
svcValue2 = 'null',
svcThumb = '$arr[\'media:group\'][\'media:thumbnail\'][3][\'url\']',
svcTitle = '$arr[\'media:group\'][\'media:title\'][\'value\']',
svcDesc = '$arr[\'media:group\'][\'media:description\'][\'value\']',
svcLength = '$arr[\'media:group\'][\'yt:duration\'][\'seconds\']',
svcTags = 'null',
svcMovie = 'http://www.youtube.com/v/{serviceVAL}?autoplay={ap10}&hd=1&fs=1',
svcWidth = 640,
svcHeight = 385,
svcStream = 'null',
svcType = 'application/x-shockwave-flash',
svcError = '$arr[\'app:control\'][\'yt:state\'][\'value\']'
WHERE serviceID = 1;

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'svcStream' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Request Date : Sunday, August 29th 2010 @ 08:22:25 AM
Error Date : Sunday, August 29th 2010 @ 08:22:25 AM
Script : http://www.mycncuk.com/forums/media....n_host_restore
Referrer : http://www.mycncuk.com/forums/media.php?do=admin_host
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.1.26-rc-5.1.26rc

I have upgraded to 4.1.6 from 4.0.9 by uploading and then importing the xml file, i also set this to overright for both the uploads and the import.

2.
The other thing i have a problem with is this blank space showing up, i think its somthing to do with the custom variable system. I have this turned off so im not sure why its creating this blank space. Also what are the "custom variables" attully for, how do we use them and can you give an example.

Thanks for your time.

Lee

[Lee Roberts]

Looks like its somthing to do with this line, if i remove it the blank area go's away:

<vb:if condition="$media['embed_stream']"><div class="mediarow" style="margin-top: {vb:stylevar media_margin}px; border: 0px; padding: 0px;">{vb:raw media.embed_stream}</div></vb:if>

[Jaxel]

Originally Posted by MYCNCUK

I am getting the following error:

I have upgraded to 4.1.6 from 4.0.9 by uploading and then importing the xml file, i also set this to overright for both the uploads and the import.

4.1.6 was a rollup, from 4.1.2... add the following row to your media_services table:
svcStream varchar(255) NOT NULL default 'null',

Originally Posted by iask

Media URL contained invalid data.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGpLHj-MVtk

Rebuild your hoster services; 4.1.6 now includes error codes to enhance error reporting when hoster sites (such as youtube) reject your embed request. (such as: this video is not available in your region or uploader has disabled external embedding for this video)

[Big-Pete]

HI Jaxel,
Love this mod..

I'd like to add my videos that I have on Amazon s3 / cloudfront, Is there a way to get these into the media library aswell??
The URL format is

http: // myvids.s3.amazonaws.com/gt/myvideotitle-2448555.flv

My videos also have MRSS files / info with them..

[spoky29]

Very nice it's working perfectly! Thanks

Just a little idea: Will it be possible to put a buton " Add to playlist" To add any video of the media library?

++

[Jaxel]

Originally Posted by Big-Pete

HI Jaxel,
Love this mod..

I'd like to add my videos that I have on Amazon s3 / cloudfront, Is there a way to get these into the media library aswell??
The URL format is



My videos also have MRSS files / info with them..

Please send me a link to an example mrss file.

[Merjawy]

I am really not that dumb, I feel like one this time

I installed it and had issue with vsa mod and had issues with it before so I removed it
uninstalled this mod and reinstalled it

now all seem to be ok, but the first plug-in media Admin import is disabled. Is that normal?

when I enable it, and run the updates I get database errors tabe videotagvideo not found

PHP Code:

Database error in vBulletin 4.0.6:

Invalid SQL:
INSERT IGNORE
        INTO media_tag_content (tagID, mediaID, userID, dateline)
        SELECT tagid, videoid, userid, dateline FROM videotagvideo;

MySQL Error   : Table 'XXXXXXXXXX_vb403.videotagvideo' doesn't exist
Error Number  : 1146
Request Date  : Monday, August 30th 2010 @ 02:36:06 AM
Error Date    : Monday, August 30th 2010 @ 02:36:06 AM
Script        : http://www.XXXXXXX.com/XXXXXX/XXXXXXcp/misc.php?do=import_media_vdrcreate
Referrer      : http://www.XXXXXXXX.com/XXXXXXX/XXXXXXcp/misc.php?do=import_media_check
IP Address    : XXXXXXXXX
Username      : XXXXXX
Classname     : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 4.1.22-standard 


Also I get database error with the other two options with different table not exist issues

Or am I doing it all wrong?
I don't have any data imported into my library yet

Thanks

[kingMOB]

Is there a way to make one link open the page with videos from more than one categorie? Like media.php?do=category&cid=3&cid=4&cid=5 ?

Thanks.

[ANGEL OF FIRE]

Search doesn't work if the search request is entered by Cyrillic. Fix it please as we have a lot of videoclips with Cyrillic titles.