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;
}

[weetabx]

Originally Posted by synseal

I have been reading through this from the start for a fix and here it is!!! Thank you, before for me these administrative links did not show..... Now they do.

Will this be fixed in the next update .

Love this mod, thank you Jaxel for all your work, installed - Donation sent and Nominated :up:

i had that problem but found out was the chat box that was upsetting it as i had set for every page to display changed itt not to display on the media page and every thing is good now

[synseal]

Originally Posted by weetabx

i had that problem but found out was the chat box that was upsetting it as i had set for every page to display changed itt not to display on the media page and every thing is good now

Thanks for that but I have the VSA chatbox on the forumhome only :up:.

[your24hourstore]

Originally Posted by weetabx

ok you need to upload the file into the customVID folder in your root of the forum then when adding media all you put in the Media URL localvideo: FILENAME OF VIDEO HERE thats it.

But i cant get the thumbs to work for some reason on the files i uploaded

the file would more than likely have to be in the swf , (flash Format) to work i would think
so don't even try MOV,MPG,WAV convert them first

that should work.

as far as the thumbs go I too have not been able to get them to work. I guess you could always just post them to a thread then edit the thread with a thumb till we can figure it out

OK I see how its coded now: the thumb is pulled from /media/media_video.jpg you could go in and change that by removing that pic and rename the thumb you want shown to (media_video.jpg) then retrieve the information for that video.

You would have to manually create the thumb. but once uploaded to /media/ and renamed the retrieved it would be renamed in the thumbs folder to something like 28.jpg automatically. This would allow you to do this anytime you want to actually have a thumb associated with a local video. be aware that this picl (media_video.jpg) will also be the pic for any local files you upload if you don't change the pic you will have this pic as your thumb.

Jaxel could probably fix this pretty easy once he has time to re-cooperate from his coding binge :>

[Gn_Snake]

I'm sorry to insist, but I can not see video Metacafe.
Black screen and not the video.

[your24hourstore]

Originally Posted by Gn_Snake

I'm sorry to insist, but I can not see video Metacafe.
Black screen and not the video.

whats the link you are useing to try and retrieve the video?

show us, and are you downloading them useing a premium account then trying to host them ?

or have you used this embbeded code supplied to make it work in post #3 17 Apr 2010, 15:55

Added : ok i see what your seeing the thumb is there and the player but it wont play, tags all there definitions all there its wierd

[hotslot]

Please add this code to product description somewhere to save the hassle of this question being asked 1000 times.

If You run VBSEO on your vb 4.X platform and You want to turn on SEO option here is the htaccess info You got to change.

change "\d+" to "[0-9]+" in .htaccess and added "media" in exclusion list in vBSEO rewrite rule:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|media|modcp/|cron|vbseo_sitemap)

This is the work from VBSEO and works really fine on my forum.

[Jaxel]

Really? So the regular expression STANDARD digit character grouping \d does not work in VBSEO? And people wonder why I think they shouldn't be using VBSEO.

[Jaxel]

Originally Posted by harleyparts

Jaxel could probably fix this pretty easy once he has time to re-cooperate from his coding binge :>

There is nothing to fix here... it is working as intended. media_video.jpg is the DEFAULT thumbnail. I have already provided a method for people to upload their own thumbnails.

[Yehoshua Sofer]

Thanks for helping on the local file upload. Worked perfectly. Is the "upload a thumbnail" feature working. I can not seem to edit the media. Like another post I read here it just changes back when I save the changes and only the stock thumbnail shows. I looked but could not find a response to this question. But then, like I said, I am a real novice here.

[Gn_Snake]

Originally Posted by harleyparts

whats the link you are useing to try and retrieve the video?

show us, and are you downloading them useing a premium account then trying to host them ?

or have you used this embbeded code supplied to make it work in post #3 17 Apr 2010, 15:55

Added : ok i see what your seeing the thumb is there and the player but it wont play, tags all there definitions all there its wierd

Example the link metacafe is http://www.metacafe.com/watch/4546247

Thanks