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;
}

[EquinoxWorld]

Hello Jaxel, I'm sure you have heard this before but I am now getting a "The category name you entered is too short (4) , it has to be at least 5 carachters long." We had this before set to 1 because we have cats that have names that start with a letter but after the last upgrade we have not been able to edit or add categorys because of this error. I changed it kast time in one of the files from media library but I can't recall now which was the file. Any ideas on how to fix this and be able to edit and add cats again? I would appreciate your help with this one. Thank you for your time.

Edited: Also I have checked the vBulletin option for minimum characters per post and we have that set to 1 as well.

[Jaxel]

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Version 4.1.5 MAINTENANCE RELEASE
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• CHANGES: Service Hosters can now retrieve XML information based on ERRORS.
  

  What this means, instead of YouTube returning a "Media contains invalid data" prompt,
  the script will instead post the direct error prompt supplied by YouTube Error Code.
  The issues people were having with foreign language forums and YouTube will be explained.

  • You MUST run the "Click here to restore all services in the "/media/xml" directory to their default settings" process.
    
• BUG FIX: Fixed service codes for MetaCafe and Dailymotion who changed their functions
• BUG FIX: Fixed a table prefix issue with both playlists and the search functions.
• BUG FIX: Disabled the ImageMagick routines once again until I can get it working.
• NOTICE: All install procedures pre-4.1.2 have been rolled up into the initial release.

[Xencored]

Originally Posted by Jaxel

================================================== =========
Version 4.1.5 MAINTENANCE RELEASE
================================================== =========

• CHANGES: Service Hosters can now retrieve XML information based on ERRORS.
  

  What this means, instead of YouTube returning a "Media contains invalid data" prompt,
  the script will instead post the direct error prompt supplied by YouTube Error Code.
  The issues people were having with foreign language forums and YouTube will be explained.

  • You MUST run the "Click here to restore all services in the "/media/xml" directory to their default settings" process.
    
• BUG FIX: Fixed service codes for MetaCafe and Dailymotion who changed their functions
• BUG FIX: Fixed a table prefix issue with both playlists and the search functions.
• BUG FIX: Disabled the ImageMagick routines once again until I can get it working.
• NOTICE: All install procedures pre-4.1.2 have been rolled up into the initial release.

Thanks upgraded fine

[ArtakEVN]

Thank you for update.
But my problem steel unfixed. And besides that there is a problem with search with non-latin characters. I always get an error "Could not find phrase 'media_search_string_too_short'."

[Neal-UK]

Just updated to 4.1.6. Currently have an .htaccess file for vBSEO but I would like to have the media rewritten. Any idea how to achieve this again please?

[EquinoxWorld]

Quick question

Version 4.1.5 MAINTENANCE RELEASE
================================================== =========
CHANGES: Service Hosters can now retrieve XML information based on ERRORS.
What this means, instead of YouTube returning a "Media contains invalid data" prompt,
the script will instead post the direct error prompt supplied by YouTube Error Code.
The issues people were having with foreign language forums and YouTube will be explained.
You MUST run the "Click here to restore all services in the "/media/xml" directory to their default settings" process.
BUG FIX: Fixed service codes for MetaCafe and Dailymotion who changed their functions
BUG FIX: Fixed a table prefix issue with both playlists and the search functions.
BUG FIX: Disabled the ImageMagick routines once again until I can get it working.
NOTICE: All install procedures pre-4.1.2 have been rolled up into the initial release.

Although mod version on top says 4.1.6? Am I missing something here?
-Also will this new update fix the issue we are having not being able to edit the cat's? Please let us know, this is very important we have finished with the playlists transfer and would like to start disabling the other 600+ cats. Thank you for your time Jaxel.

[Inferno Dragon]

I am looking for imagemagick fix, because GD don't allow my members to upload transparent PNG avatars. Is there any option available that Media Gallery works indvidually on it's own settings of GD instead of using vbulletin image settings option? so I can set imagemagick for vbulletin and GD for media gallery?

[andyv72]

Have update to 1.6 and change Admin Control Panel > Plugins & Products > Plugin Manager > "media NAVTAB" but i dont see the admin control....

[john locke]

I have installed Media Library but there's a problem.. i cant setting the permissions... where can i manage it?? i dont find the option

[EquinoxWorld]

Originally Posted by john locke

I have installed Media Library but there's a problem.. i cant setting the permissions... where can i manage it?? i don't find the option

Did you check upper middle/right corner of the sub navbar? Some options are in the subnavbar some are in the vbulleitn options .