Major Additions - 8WayRun.Com - Media Library

Don't forget to click INSTALL!
I'm an unemployed computer programmer... if you appreciate the work I have done on this mod, please don't hesitate in offering me a donation by clicking the "Support Developer" link to the right of this text. A donation of $50 or more automatically gives you the right to remove the copyright footer for this modification from a single forum.

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 liefdesdichter

nice one but VDR was better google was possible en there was a better config menu

Actually, this one is better than VDR. Google video only worked on VDR because someone else (not me) made an XML for google that parsed the ENTIRE google page and simply pulled the relevant data. There was no error checking, no API and no meta at all. VDR worked on APIs only. This mod uses APIs and meta. I didn't support Google on VDR, and right now its not supported either.

Originally Posted by Ninos

It's probably been asked before, but you gotta understand that there's 96 pages to root thru.

How do I remove the "media" tab from the navigation bar?I'm using a custom navigation tabs mod and I'm linking to the seperate categories direct and therefore I don't have any use for the 'media' tab if you get me. See it wouldn't be a problem but if I disable the navtab plugin it removes ALL related navigation too (eg. the secondary navigation links).

Disable the plugin "media NAVTAB"

Originally Posted by bada_bing

Any Help please

MonkeySee is not supported right now.

Originally Posted by cloferba

where i can find more services on xml format...to import them?

thanks! amazing mod!

What service are you looking for?

[Jaxel]

GOOGLE VIDEO...

God its so hard to program with a broken keyboard. On-Screen Keyboard sucks.

[michaelmash]

hi jaxel .

please make xml for youku.com and tudou.com

i make those two XML base on youtube.xml change the domain name and some regex, it can parse url but cant get media ,say some media wrong with the url. i dont know why. if we need parse new site just need do the xml template or we need change some php code?

[Jaxel]

Originally Posted by michaelmash

hi jaxel .

please make xml for youku.com and tudou.com

i make those two XML base on youtube.xml change the domain name and some regex, it can parse url but cant get media ,say some media wrong with the url. i dont know why. if we need parse new site just need do the xml template or we need change some php code?

Please show me what you've already done, so I can tell you waht you did wrong.

[Ninos]

Originally Posted by Jaxel

Disable the plugin "media NAVTAB"

Thanks for the reply Jaxel, but as I mentioned in my post (at least I think I did anyway) not only does this remove the main tab on the nav bar, but it removes all the secondary navigation links too. I need those links so I can upload additional media etc. so is there a way of removing the tab "Media" WITHOUT removing the 8wayrun media navigation too?

I hope that makes sense.

[COL NIL SATIS]

Jaxel is it possible to embed Veetle into VB forums like you can with Youtube, JTV, Ustream etc...?

[EquinoxWorld]

Originally Posted by Ninos

Thanks for the reply Jaxel, but as I mentioned in my post (at least I think I did anyway) not only does this remove the main tab on the nav bar, but it removes all the secondary navigation links too. I need those links so I can upload additional media etc. so is there a way of removing the tab "Media" WITHOUT removing the 8wayrun media navigation too?

I hope that makes sense.

Try this:

In the 8WR_media_NAVTAB delete :

<a class="navtab" href="media.php{vb:raw session.sessionurl_q}">{vb:phrase media}</a>

and

<li><a class="navtab" href="media.php?{vb:raw session.sessionurl}">{vb:phrase media}</a></li>

Remember to back up your template before trying any edits!

[Ninos]

Thanks for that EquinoxWorld, but where is that found? I've opened the 8WR_media_NAVTAB plugin but this is all the code I got:

if (THIS_SCRIPT == '8WR_media')
{
	require_once(DIR.'/media/media_functions_hrefs.php');
	require_once(DIR.'/media/media_functions_perms.php');

	$perms = media_permissions();

	$vbulletin->options['selectednavtab'] = 'media';

	$categories = $vbulletin->db->query_read("
		SELECT * FROM ".TABLE_PREFIX."media_category
		WHERE catOrder != '0'
		ORDER BY catOrder
	");

	$href['playlists'] = construct_href_playlists();
	$href['pmine'] = construct_href_playlists_mine();
	$href['pcreate'] = construct_href_playlists_create();
	$href['favorites'] = construct_href_favorites();
	$href['subscriptions'] = construct_href_subscriptions();
	$href['submit'] = construct_href_submit();
	$href['random'] = construct_href_random();
	$href['cats'] = construct_href_admin("cats");
	$href['tags'] = construct_href_admin("tags");
	$href['host'] = construct_href_admin("host");

	while ($category = $vbulletin->db->fetch_array($categories))
	{
		$category['href'] = construct_href_category($category);

		$category['align'] = "";
		for ($i = 0; $i < $category['catDepth']; $i++) { $category['align'] .= '-- '; }

		$templater = vB_Template::create('8WR_media_NAVTAB_cat');
		$templater->register('category', $category);
		$categorybits .= $templater->render();
	}
}

$templater = vB_Template::create('8WR_media_NAVTAB');
$templater->register('perms', $perms);
$templater->register('href', $href);
$templater->register('categorybits', $categorybits);
$template_hook['navtab_middle'] .= $templater->render();

Looks like that code is either within one of the following files perhaps:

media/media_functions_hrefs.php
media/media_functions_perms.php

Thanks again your help is appreciated

[EquinoxWorld]

Originally Posted by Ninos

Thanks for that EquinoxWorld, but where is that found? I've opened the 8WR_media_NAVTAB plugin but this is all the code I got:

if (THIS_SCRIPT == '8WR_media')
{
	require_once(DIR.'/media/media_functions_hrefs.php');
	require_once(DIR.'/media/media_functions_perms.php');

	$perms = media_permissions();

	$vbulletin->options['selectednavtab'] = 'media';

	$categories = $vbulletin->db->query_read("
		SELECT * FROM ".TABLE_PREFIX."media_category
		WHERE catOrder != '0'
		ORDER BY catOrder
	");

	$href['playlists'] = construct_href_playlists();
	$href['pmine'] = construct_href_playlists_mine();
	$href['pcreate'] = construct_href_playlists_create();
	$href['favorites'] = construct_href_favorites();
	$href['subscriptions'] = construct_href_subscriptions();
	$href['submit'] = construct_href_submit();
	$href['random'] = construct_href_random();
	$href['cats'] = construct_href_admin("cats");
	$href['tags'] = construct_href_admin("tags");
	$href['host'] = construct_href_admin("host");

	while ($category = $vbulletin->db->fetch_array($categories))
	{
		$category['href'] = construct_href_category($category);

		$category['align'] = "";
		for ($i = 0; $i < $category['catDepth']; $i++) { $category['align'] .= '-- '; }

		$templater = vB_Template::create('8WR_media_NAVTAB_cat');
		$templater->register('category', $category);
		$categorybits .= $templater->render();
	}
}

$templater = vB_Template::create('8WR_media_NAVTAB');
$templater->register('perms', $perms);
$templater->register('href', $href);
$templater->register('categorybits', $categorybits);
$template_hook['navtab_middle'] .= $templater->render();

Looks like that code is either within one of the following files perhaps:

media/media_functions_hrefs.php
media/media_functions_perms.php

Thanks again your help is appreciated

It is actually a lot easier than that my friend. It is in the template 8WR_media_NAVTAB . No edit to plug-ins or files required. One is near the beginning and the other almost at the end.

[Ninos]

Originally Posted by EquinoxWorld

It is actually a lot easier than that my friend. It is in the template 8WR_media_NAVTAB . No edit to plug-ins or files required. One is near the beginning and the other almost at the end.

Thanks a lot for that, I found and removed the specified coding and can confirm it works! +rep really appreciated