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;
}

[Footman]

Originally Posted by Jaxel

Not yet... I had a [video] code in the previous version, but now that vb has made their own video code, it would be in conflict.

Thanks Jaxel. By the way smooth running over here.

[hotslot]

Ok here is a few answers from some highly qualified guys from somewhere. If You have vbseo make sure to use this coding.

It appears Jaxel is submitting a customized file full of excess junk and default vb4 rewrites.

All you need is this section:

# Media Library
ReWriteRule ^media/m(\d+).*/tags$ media.php?do=tags_edit&mid=$1 [QSA]
ReWriteRule ^media/m(\d+).*/edit$ media.php?do=details_edit&mid=$1 [QSA]
ReWriteRule ^media/m(\d+).*/report$ media.php?do=report&mid=$1 [QSA]
ReWriteRule ^media/m(\d+).*/c(\d+)$ media.php?do=comment_edit&cmt=$2 [QSA]
ReWriteRule ^media/m(\d+).* media.php?do=details&mid=$1 [QSA]
ReWriteRule ^media/c(\d+).* media.php?do=category&cid=$1 [QSA]
ReWriteRule ^media/u(\d+).* media.php?do=user&uid=$1 [QSA]
ReWriteRule ^media/tag/(.*) media.php?do=tag&tid=$1 [QSA]
ReWriteRule ^media/tagcloud.* media.php?do=tagcloud [QSA]
ReWriteRule ^media/search/(.*) media.php?do=search&query=$1 [QSA]
ReWriteRule ^media/letter/(.*) media.php?do=letter&query=$1 [QSA]
ReWriteRule ^media/submit.* media.php?do=submit [QSA]
ReWriteRule ^media/random.* media.php?do=random [QSA]
ReWriteRule ^media/favorites.* media.php?do=favorites [QSA]
ReWriteRule ^media/admin/edit/s(\d+).* media.php?do=admin_host_edit&sid=$1 [QSA]
ReWriteRule ^media/admin/delete/s(\d+).* media.php?do=admin_host_delete&sid=$1 [QSA]
ReWriteRule ^media/admin/export/s(\d+).* media.php?do=admin_host_export&sid=$1 [QSA]
ReWriteRule ^media/admin/(\w+).* media.php?do=admin_$1 [QSA]

And replace the d+ with [0-9]+ as previously outlined in your work.

[SwollenCranium]

Originally Posted by hotslot

Ok here is a few answers from some highly qualified guys from somewhere.

How about YOU stop your B-itching and don't use this guys FREE mod, and go back and spend another $4000 to have some dude hold your hand through some more forum building rather than doing what most of the rest of us do ... LEARN on our own.

I'll gladly use this mod .. and gladly contribute more $$ to the author if he promises to make more references to God having an idiot factory.

[hotslot]

Hey Internet Tough Guy.

First of all I have donated $50 to this project, he was begging for donations and I sent him $50. I offered to hire him on and pay him several hundred more to simply make this compatible with vbseo. He wasn't interested appears he wants free money for how he wants to set it up. If I was aware this was not compatible with vbseo in the description field I would not have installed it All the answers he keeps pointing back on for vbseo assistance has been from me. He has clearly stated he does not like vbseo and refuses to update this section to suit anyone's needs. That's ok also, but don't ask for respect and answers if You don't have the respect to let members know before there forum crashes its full of excess coding and is not functioning with the most common mod used for a vbulletin forum "vbseo" I have spent 60 hours on this project so far for members that use vbseo.. I have the right to be upset. Also Where is my money? I'm begging.

jerk

[SwollenCranium]

Originally Posted by hotslot

Hey Internet Tough Guy.


jerk

*Yawn* ...


Great Mod !!! Nominated ... Voted +5



Yaaa !

[Jaxel]

I don't understand how you spent 60 hours trying to get this to work with VBSEO... its a VERY SIMPLE process to get this to run on VBSEO, and I have actually stated this in a previous post...

to get this mod working in VBSEO... add "media/|" to your RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} in your VBSEO htaccess file...

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(media/|admincp/|modcp/|cron|vbseo_sitemap|vbseocp|login)

Then copy and paste the MediaLibrary section from MY htaccess into your VBSEO htaccess file below the line mentioned above. Then change all instances of \d to [0-9]. Simple, not complicated.

As I said before, I refuse to change \d to [0-9] in my code. \d is a PERL and PCRE standard, and there is no reason why VBSEO should not support it. THEY should have to change THEIR code, I should not have to change mine. There is a right and wrong way to do things in PHP, and they do things the wrong way... However, even if you don't use the method quoted above, there is NO WAY this mod can break your forum. If your forum is broken, you broke it yourself.

The reason why I turned down your job request is because I have no interest in spending hours upon hours debugging OTHER people's poor programming. If your job request was for me to write a custom mod for your forums, that is one thing... but I don't have any interest in debugging other people's code. Especially when a lot of the bugs seem to be caused by the USER (that would be YOU), and not the programmers of these other mods themselves.

[puertoblack2003]

i love this mod.. i wish i would have known about this mod before i renewed my subscription with vbtube..One thing is there such an import app to pull from vbtube?

[hotslot]

Thank You Jaxel. Ya that person would be Harley from here at vb. He touched it, has never worked since.

I don't touch anything on tech side, I just pay people and try and get tech people together to figure things out.

[Jaxel]

Originally Posted by puertoblack2003

i love this mod.. i wish i would have known about this mod before i renewed my subscription with vbtube..One thing is there such an import app to pull from vbtube?

Please contact me on AIM, so that we can talk about this.

[Jaxel]

Next version will have BBCodes...

http://test.8wayrun.com/threads/2-Te...p=5&viewfull=1