New Posting Features - VB AnyMedia Player / Media Sites (youtube, google and many more)

Goldbrick Media system for vBulletin 3.6.x

Thanks to all who nominated or voted this for MOTM.

Some of you might be looking for Anymedia. Well this has replaced it. It's a total rewrite from the ground up. A huge thanks goes to Sir Adrian for creating the framework. He can't cook soup but he sure can code.

Why the name goldbrck?

From Wikipedia:

Goldbricking, in today's terms, generally refers to staff who use their work internet access for personal reasons while maintaining the appearance of working.

From Urban Dictionary:

Goldbricking: To loaf or goof around on the job. Supposedly an old union term describing laborers (or more specifically, bricklayers) who were going so slow, it was as if each brick were made of solid gold. One can alse be referred to as a "goldbricker".

Dude, I spent all day at work goldbricking - surfing the web, making long distance phone calls - basically just picking my ass.

Goldbrick uses the following third party Products:

• Highslide Javascript. I've packaged it with the 3.1 download. Please read the license agreement on highlide's website. In short it's free for non-commercial use. http://vikjavev.no/highslide/
• - - -
• The media player and mp3 player are from http://www.jeroenwijering.com/

What's new in Goldbrick?

• Complete code overhaul.
• Plays most media types.
• Forum admins can add their own video sites
• Updated Highslide.js
• Attachment Images work with Goldbrick
• Don't need to use BBCODE
• Auto Phrases URL's
• Media Options per post
• Much more on the way!

Goldbrick's Requirements:

• Vbulletin :P
• PHP 5

Goldbrick Version 1.5:
- Fixed Vbadvanced integration
- Fixed extensions permissions checking
- Added pickup of old [media] tags
- More code changes for later features

Goldbrick Version 1.4:
- Fixed Apple trailers
- Added Added Viemo videos
- More code changes for later features

Goldbrick Version 1.3:
- Fixed Images
- Fixed MP3's
- Fixed Myspace, now supports myspacetv.com
- Added Increase or decrease video size for the classic player (testebr gets the credit for this one)
- Added Added ESPN videos
- Added Veoh video site.

Goldbrick Version 1.2:
- Added Videos for Profiles for vbulletin 3.7
- Added Classic Skin
- Added Vblog Support
- Added Vbadvanced Support
- Fixed Attachments
- Rewrote some of the code


Planned Features:

- Youtube like interface
- Video Comments
- Media Tags
- Media Searching


Please report any issues or suggestions.

[nix]

Tag with options:
[MEDIA="width, height, autostart, loop, extension"]url_of_the_file[/MEDIA]
[MEDIA="width, height, autostart, loop"]url_of_the_file[/MEDIA]
[MEDIA="width, height, autostart"]url_of_the_file[/MEDIA]
[MEDIA="width, height"]url_of_the_file[/MEDIA]

[nix]

This is also probably a good time to request any features.

[Daky]

is there anything that i can do about my problem?,....
all media tags that were poted before 2 weeks are not working, all i see is actualy [media]code[/media]

tags i put now will work no problem

[Chadi]

Thanks nix.

Power Point ability would be a nice add-on. Of course, to view PP presentations that is.

On a side note, other mp3/video player options to choose from. You seem awesome at coding,
so I figured I'd request a big one lol

[jdelasko]

I have noticed a strange little bug with the VBulletin editor that accounts for some of the 'Error: unsupported media type.2' errors when using the 'M' button within the VBulletin editor to wrap media tags around a url. If the url is the only thing in the editor window and you highlight the url, then click the 'M' button to wrap the media tags around the url, it does not work properly. What happens is, a space and a return are added after the first media tag, then the url appears, followed by another return, then the last media tag. When this happens, anymedia does not recognize the url as a supported media type.

Below, I have pasted an example of what I'm talking about although below it won't look quite the same as it does in the vbulletin editor. This is not an issue with Anymedia because the same thing happens with any other type of tags. If you select all the text below, you will see the extra space after the first media tag, followed by a return, the media url, followed by another return, then the last media tag.

[MEDIA]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=QOCDoKsXjP0

[/MEDIA]


The next thing I discovered is that if there is at least one return after the url in the editor window, when you highlight the url and click the 'M' button, the media tags are properly wrapped around the url with no extra spaces or returns as shown in the example below. It's a strange little quirk. It seems as though if you paste the link in the editor window, then add at least one return, everything works ok.

Has anyone else noticed this? I'm using VBulletin 3.6.4 with VBadvanced.


[MEDIA]http://youtube.com/watch?v=QOCDoKsXjP0[/MEDIA]

[nix]

Don't use the m button. Just past the youtube link http://youtube.com/watch?v=QOCDoKsXjP0 and hit submit reply. The M button is only for old vb installs and if you want to use options. In the new version thats in the works, its gone and the options are done a totally different way

[nix]

Originally Posted by sensimilla

apple trailers in avi dont get parsed.. any ideas ?

Error: Failed to parse file URL.3

Um, apple trailers are quicktime.

Originally Posted by Peter85

Ive been testing this mod on my site for a little over a week now and my users really LOVE it. (And I love it too, THANKS! )

I have, however, found one issue with it, i cant get the options to work. My users mostly use it for images and as some images are way to big it would be nice to get the size options working.

I did a quick search in the thread and I noticed that you talked about disabling those options. Have you done that or am I doing something wrong?

Either way, thanks for a great mod! :up:

if its images and you just post the links for them and don't wrap them in img tags it will auto size them. Some options don't work right now but they will be back in soon.

Originally Posted by Daky

is there anything that i can do about my problem?,....
all media tags that were poted before 2 weeks are not working, all i see is actualy [media]code[/media]

tags i put now will work no problem

Set your post cache to 0 and save it. Then set it back to the number you want. Or you can edit each post. The html is saved in the database.

Originally Posted by chadi

Thanks nix.

Power Point ability would be a nice add-on. Of course, to view PP presentations that is.

On a side note, other mp3/video player options to choose from. You seem awesome at coding,
so I figured I'd request a big one lol

I'll look for some different one. With the current one you can change some features. Like the color for instance.

Tip: Did you know that if a page has more then one video you can open the first link, watch the video and then hit the right arrow button? It will cycle through the vids.

[iogames]

Originally Posted by SirAdrian

Third of Octember. Be ready.

hahaha! no, serious guys? do you have an ETA?

[testebr]

Nix,

My suggestion to future like VB AnyMedia 4 is that you create a xml system to any user with knowledge in regex to create new entry to any video website.

Field examples:

- title regex
- regex to feech embed code
- is adult?
etc..

Then user can import the XML in admincp.

And about version 3.1 dont bother with new features, just fix the last small bugs and release the final version.

Cya

[nix]

We are really close to a release. We already added support for users to add their own site but not by xml. It's a much easier method.

This is a complete rewrite and it should fix most issues. Its not even called anymedia anymore.