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;
}

[hotslot]

Ok here is an update of the entire situation and some things we have learned. If your running vbseo and have it programed to work for this media library make sure You do a database backup.

Once we disabled vbseo the crash went away. So the new update here and vbseo did not like each other one bit.

I will update as soon as I hear more but at this time at least the forum works "minus the sitemap, vbseo, and language translation"

I will submit yet another work order at vbseo to see if they can once again get these to work together.

[puertoblack2003]

I'm running vbseo and this mod without any issues

[Jaxel]

Originally Posted by puertoblack2003

I'm running vbseo and this mod without any issues

The majority of people's problems are that they can't read instructions correctly or they dont know how to properly maintain their server.

Originally Posted by rammieone

Its all running a1 for us on the last release so is it advised to upgrade anyway?

If you want the vbCMS block, and the ability to install your own hosters, you'll need to upgrade.

From what I have seen, only ONE person is having any issues with this upgrade, and that issue has nothing to do with this mod; they did something else that broke their forum, and is related directly to vbSEO.

[docvader]

Just installed .5 version that you just uploaded. Fresh install. Upload went into correct parts of my forum root.

In the MEDIA section, when I click on, for example, "submit media", the link directs to "http://www.russbo.org/vb/media/submit" instead of "http://www.russbo.org/vb/media/media_submit.php", which is the file in the ./media/ directory that I assume that link calls to. I know I must be missing something here, I've been installing these mods for years, and I don't see what I overlooked. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

EDIT: Fixed it. Turn off "should URLs within the media library be slugged for SEO? " and it works fine. Had to put that .htaccess file in the forum root....

[hotslot]

Originally Posted by puertoblack2003

I'm running vbseo and this mod without any issues

whats your website? Want to help us and vbseo tech out? Cause obviously we are not on same page.

[hotslot]

Originally Posted by Jaxel

Well I have fixed the media library on hotslot's website... simply by following these steps for VBSEO:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=443

As for the rest of the problems with his website, they are completely unrelated to this mod.

Still not working, site had to disable all vbseo, translations, and sitemaps to simply run. I was worried about this regarding new upgrade see this concern. https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=437

[your24hourstore]

im updated and now my CMS is widgety :> works like it is supposed to

[your24hourstore]

Originally Posted by puertoblack2003

I'm running vbseo and this mod without any issues

hey i need a clean copy from your zip of vbseo htaccsess not the one in includes all is in that is deny all/ will be in the root can you help a brother out :>

[Jaxel]

Okay, I just uploaded a new version... if you are already running 4.0.5 and everything is running fine for you, then there is no reason for you to get this new version... you'll get the new features automatically when 4.0.6 comes out.

What this new version does, on your "Administrate Services" page, it adds a link for:
Click here to restore all services in the "/media/xml" directory to their default setting.

What clicking this link does, is automatically trawl the /media/xml directory and run the "Add New Service" process on every file in there. It will update existing services, as well as restore services that you may have deleted in the past. This is useful, because if I ever make changes to the overall system for services, you can easily upgrade ALL of your service options without having to upload each file one by one.

[your24hourstore]

Originally Posted by Jaxel

Okay, I just uploaded a new version... if you are already running 4.0.5 and everything is running fine for you, then there is no reason for you to get this new version... you'll get the new features automatically when 4.0.6 comes out.

What this new version does, on your "Administrate Services" page, it adds a link for:
Click here to restore all services in the "/media/xml" directory to their default setting.

What clicking this link does, is automatically trawl the /media/xml directory and run the "Add New Service" process on every file in there. It will update existing services, as well as restore services that you may have deleted in the past. This is useful, because if I ever make changes to the overall system for services, you can easily upgrade ALL of your service options without having to upload each file one by one.

all is good, one thing jaxel the thumbs folder was cmod 755 and i had to change it to update my thumbs. but is working great and it makes cms look a whole lot better have that widget thanks man