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;
}

[Juggernaut]

I keep getting this message when trying to post a video, that's although I do make the description of the videos longer than 5 characters:

The description you have entered is too short (0 characters). Please lengthen your description to at least 5 characters.

[xxalexkimxx]

Originally Posted by cindy helmond

dont see the Admin Control Panel (vBulletin 4.0.3) in the media mod any help ?
cant make any caterogies is this an bug ?

Report its not working
thx

On the Media page, you will see the Admin control area option at the Sub menu of the Media page. It is working 100%, really mod, I enjoy it! Except the SEO that didn't work for me because I'm using vBSEO.

[xxalexkimxx]

Originally Posted by Destron

I keep getting this message when trying to post a video, that's although I do make the description of the videos longer than 5 characters:

The description you have entered is too short (0 characters). Please lengthen your description to at least 5 characters.

It happened to me, too. Either you have the longer description or leave it blank!

[Juggernaut]

I still get the message when I leave it blank.
Also my descriptions are not very short, they tend to be a few lines at least.

[Jaxel]

Originally Posted by Webbstre

Thank you! Any hope for image files to be incorporated as well?

Not unless every server on the net suddenly installed FFmpegPHP on their servers, this isn't going to happen. In order to extract information from a video, such as thumbnails, length, tags or any such other ID information, there needs to be the libraries required to do so installed on your server. No server comes with video libraries installed by default; hell, there are still a ton of servers out there that don't have GD2 (image libraries)!

What you can do is click "Edit Details" and at the bottom is the option to upload a custom thumbnail. So you can upload a custom thumbnail for every media in your system. However, be warned, if you ever run the "Rebuild Thumbnail Information" process, it will seek out original thumbnails from the service host. I have written in an exception so that it will SKIP the rebuild of any thumbnails in the INTERNAL service host group; but for other service hosts (like YouTube, etc), this process will overwrite your custom thumbnails.

[svandanam]

Any chance the thread view on the main forum will be fixed in the next version ?? Also, Is there a way to change the name of the media tab on the nav bar ??

[Webbstre]

Originally Posted by Jaxel

Not unless every server on the net suddenly installed FFmpegPHP on their servers, this isn't going to happen. In order to extract information from a video, such as thumbnails, length, tags or any such other ID information, there needs to be the libraries required to do so installed on your server. No server comes with video libraries installed by default; hell, there are still a ton of servers out there that don't have GD2 (image libraries)!

What you can do is click "Edit Details" and at the bottom is the option to upload a custom thumbnail. So you can upload a custom thumbnail for every media in your system. However, be warned, if you ever run the "Rebuild Thumbnail Information" process, it will seek out original thumbnails from the service host. I have written in an exception so that it will SKIP the rebuild of any thumbnails in the INTERNAL service host group; but for other service hosts (like YouTube, etc), this process will overwrite your custom thumbnails.

Hehe, I should have been more specific: any chance of having image galleries implemented someday in the future? As I mentioned above, if you incorporated images into the galleries and then created an upload script you could definitely sell it as a Pro version.

Also, my site runs on a private server, so if I can make sure FFmpegPHP and GD2 are installed will that help with the thumbnails thing?

Thanks for the responses btw!

[Veer]

Originally Posted by Webbstre

Hehe, I should have been more specific: any chance of having image galleries implemented someday in the future? As I mentioned above, if you incorporated images into the galleries and then created an upload script you could definitely sell it as a Pro version.

Also, my site runs on a private server, so if I can make sure FFmpegPHP and GD2 are installed will that help with the thumbnails thing?

Thanks for the responses btw!

I believe jaxel will provide a guide on how to make your own hosters, so you can make hosters for images. Personally I don't like to have image galleries in media library, but I would love to have audio/mp3 media implemented in the future, so we will be able to make songs albums, playlists etc.

[Webbstre]

Originally Posted by Veer

I believe jaxel will provide a guide on how to make your own hosters, so you can make hosters for images. Personally I don't like to have image galleries in media library, but I would love to have audio/mp3 media implemented in the future, so we will be able to make songs albums, playlists etc.

That would be useful too. I'll be patient for advice on how to implement these kinds of things

Now to get back to learning stylevars

[rolet]

I must be doing something wrong, When I hit submit video I get a 404 page, but the thumbnail shows up on my media page, but none of the videos are there when you choose one to click on...I have no idea what I am doing wrong... really none of the links other than the one below work....please help

the link is http://pixiesaver.com/media.php