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;
}

[BorisPeace]

Originally Posted by mrt12345

This should work , i will be trying this out myself.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=244058

This is really great, though it seems a little off on my page.

Here is how it looks: http://i52.tinypic.com/dr9r8x.jpg

Is there a way to fix this?

[j0k4w1ld]

well something is messing up i cant do categories send me to main page

[MonkYZ]

This is the greatest mod for vBulletin 4.x. I would gladly pay for a comercial version, that doesn't generates errors like this one:

PHP Code:

Database error in vBulletin 4.1.3:

Invalid SQL:

                                        SELECT languageid,
                        phrasegroup_global AS phrasegroup_global,
                        phrasegroup_video AS phrasegroup_video,
                        phrasegroup_posting AS phrasegroup_posting,
                        phrasegroup_gxbl AS phrasegroup_gxbl,
                        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_video' in 'field list' 


[CK]

I wonder if the developer would change the code to reusable so someone else more knowledgeable can pick up where he left off.

[Bob_R]

Can someone provide a link to their vBulletin website with this mod working to the point where the author stopped working on it?

Thanks!

[appsfinder]

Originally Posted by Eagle Eyes

Is it possible to rename Media into Videos?

easy do a Search in Phrases in admin look for Media (yes there Lots)

but the one your looking for is called

Standard Phrase: Media click edit then copy default then rename and update.

Tip Use these settings to narrow it down

Product 8WR Media Libary

Phrase Text Only

Case-Sensitive Yes

Exact Match Yes

[inigo]

Can someone tell me which is the variable with the total media uploaded by each user, to add ir in the postbit below user name?

Thanks,

[tlwwolfseye]

Today I uninstalled this Mod because I build my Media Gallery with some external Software. Since then I get DB Error Emails with the following content:

Database error in vBulletin 4.1.0:

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 language
WHERE languageid = 1;

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

Is the uninstall not enough ? I uninstalled, removed all files. Why do I get this messages ?

Any help is appreciated.

Wolfseye

[Obi Wan]

Thanks for the great plugin

Where can I get a German language file ?

[Haywire0311]

I think I must be doing something wrong.

My locally hosted video is in the customvid folder. The customvid folder is located on the root directory (where my forum is located too). I'm typing in local:<filenamehere> and it tells me that the URL could not be parsed.

Did I miss something along the way?