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;
}

[8thos]

Replace everything in your templates with what I posted above. Make sure you do the javascript file edit correctly too or it won't work.

[KpDaCancunLegen]

Good looking out, I appreciate it. Its working. For some odd reason, I thought I read I needed to edit the templates within my ftp, which was giving me the problem. I realize now that it was supposed to be the templates within your admincp for 8WR Templates.

Thanks

Originally Posted by Octavius.

Replace everything in your templates with what I posted above. Make sure you do the javascript file edit correctly too or it won't work.

[8thos]

Originally Posted by KpDaCancunLegen

Good looking out, I appreciate it. Its working. For some odd reason, I thought I read I needed to edit the templates within my ftp, which was giving me the problem. I realize now that it was supposed to be the templates within your admincp for 8WR Templates.

Thanks

Last edited by Roms : Today at 20:07. Reason: Edited out offensive comments

^^^I apologize if I offended you mr. KpDaCancunLegen. lol

[KpDaCancunLegen]

Whatever was written I missed, since I was probably working on my site or playing angry birds. So I guess I will never know.

Originally Posted by Octavius.

Last edited by Roms : Today at 20:07. Reason: Edited out offensive comments

^^^I apologize if I offended you mr. KpDaCancunLegen. lol

[8thos]

Originally Posted by KpDaCancunLegen

Whatever was written I missed, since I was probably working on my site or playing angry birds. So I guess I will never know.

I didn't say anything bad towards you. Just used a bad letter during the description.

Not bad word mind you. Bad LETTER.

[KpDaCancunLegen]

Saw that then, if that was just what it was. Anyways regardless, thanks again. Your post with the bad letter in the description lol... pointed me in the right direction and a few others that may have been having problems fixing there media templates.

Originally Posted by Octavius.

I didn't say anything bad towards you. Just used a bad letter during the description.

Not bad word mind you. Bad LETTER.

[8thos]

Originally Posted by KpDaCancunLegen

Saw that then, if that was just what it was. Anyways regardless, thanks again. Your post with the bad letter in the description lol... pointed me in the right direction and a few others that may have been having problems fixing there media templates.

Cool.

This is my current project: http://8wayrun.com/media/sc4-casuals...y-part-4.2437/

If you look on the right you'll see a Recommend button. If you press recommend, it will show a screenshot of the video with the link to your page on your facebook wall. I'm trying to get that set up on my own media library. http://the8thlegion.com/media.php?

I don't like Recommend though I'll see if I can replace it with Like.

[KpDaCancunLegen]

Can anyone help, I am getting this error when trying to upload some of my videos, I uploaded to YT (Syndication of this video was restricted by its owner.) Guess they are cracking down, on linking certain videos. Is there a work around or bbcode, that allows syndicated vids to upload. I tried a few of the bbcodes on here even the Auto Youtube Link-Converter Mod and it still wont play them. Guess I will give up, and just post my vids, that will post and the rest people will have to go to YT to see. My goal is to keep them on my site, once it opens.

[Rahstyles]

Why does slug for seo.. does not work when vbseo is on?? can sombody please tell me how to get this to work?

[KpDaCancunLegen]

And what mod is this your using that allows YouTube syndicated videos to play? I have looked and tried a few and cant find anything to allow this other than posting them on Facebook which plays them, no problem. Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated.

Originally Posted by humptyboy

Ok here's a strange occurrence:

'SOME' YT videos when url is retrieved throws up a 'Syndication' error, yet when using the [yt] tags from another mod on here to post the video into a thread the video plays fine with no errors. Any ideas why the media library says 'no' but the forum with the [yt] tags says 'yes' lol.