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;
}

[K4GAP]

Works with 4.1.5. just fine for me. I just can't find where to add more categories.

[Gemma]

Originally Posted by GaryT

Works with 4.1.5. just fine for me. I just can't find where to add more categories.

In the Media tab on the navbar, click on Administrate and Categories from the dropdown menu.

[ndahiya]

Originally Posted by TransAmDan

I'm running VB4.1.5, I haven't added any videos for some time, now when I try to add video media, I click on 'Submit Media' at the bottom of the page, is asks if i want to navigate away from the page. When I do it then says my description is too short, even though its not.
Is this something to do with the new text editor VB have stuck in. I haven't added anything extra, just the VB default editor, perhaps its not passing on the string in the same way as previous revisions of VB.


EDIT: may be a browser issue. I was using firefox 6.0. the problem does not appear in IE8.

i am getting this error in firefox 6 and also in ie... running vb 4.1.5

the description is not being properly read. not sure why.


edit: works in ie compatibility mode. hmmm


ndahiya

[K4GAP]

Originally Posted by Gemma

In the Media tab on the navbar, click on Administrate and Categories from the dropdown menu.

WOW, I don't have that on my navbar? I have the other three links as yours does but there is no Administrative link.

Hmmmm, what could possibly cause that? Here is a screen shot of what mine looks like.

BTW, thanks for responding :up:

[K4GAP]

Ok I found the problem and all is working great now!

It was the "known bug" as described in the product description.

[peppefark]

Originally Posted by ndahiya

I'm running VB4.1.5, I haven't added any videos for some time, now when I try to add video media, I click on 'Submit Media' at the bottom of the page, is asks if i want to navigate away from the page. When I do it then says my description is too short, even though its not.
Is this something to do with the new text editor VB have stuck in. I haven't added anything extra, just the VB default editor, perhaps its not passing on the string in the same way as previous revisions of VB.


EDIT: may be a browser issue. I was using firefox 6.0. the problem does not appear in IE8.


ndahiya

I also have the same problem!
Please help me ...

[ndahiya]

Originally Posted by ndahiya

i am getting this error in firefox 6 and also in ie... running vb 4.1.5

the description is not being properly read. not sure why.


edit: works in ie compatibility mode. hmmm


ndahiya

on further review - does not always work with compatibility mode either. (Can not upload more than one video in one session?)

Can not get it to work in firefox yet.

frustrating.

ndahiya

[peppefark]

may be that you can not solve the problem with this post?

The description you have entered is too short (0 characters). Please lengthen your description to at least 10 characters

I beg you to insert a lot of videos and I can not!

[Gemma]

Originally Posted by GaryT

Ok I found the problem and all is working great now!

It was the "known bug" as described in the product description.

Yeah, I should have said you might need to edit your media NAVTAB plugin

[peppefark]

Hi,
I installed the Media Library, but when I insert a video I can not find the window where you enter the description and when I click upload I mean you receive the following error:

The description you have entered is too short (0 characters). Please lengthen your description to at least 10 characters

What can I do to solve the problem?