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]

did u set up the users groups?

[smp3000]

I'm having a similar issue.

I installed the latest beta on 3.6.7 and can't get the plugin to work.

I've triple checked the edits to the style pages, the usergroup, forum and anymedia settings, all are turned on and the "M" is still not showing up in the user bar as well as when I post links it's showing up unfiltered (media bbcode showing)

I'm out of ideas, any help?

[testebr]

nix, can you give us any news about development of new version? Just curious

[Tralala]

Originally Posted by nix

I don't see an embed feature on that site. So the only way I could do it is an iframe or ajax.

It has an embed feature:

http://blog.jingproject.com/2007/08/...om_screen.html
http://tootechy.blogspot.com/2007/08...deo-embed.html

In the new version 1.4 of the app, the share and embed strings that are put on the clipboard can be customized.

I'd love to see support for this in in AnyMedia. Being able to easily make (free) screen recordings and share them directly inside vBulletin will be a boon for many sites.

[jdelasko]

First of all, I really like this mod. I have it installed on my site and it works great in all the forums. I previously had Anymedia 3.0.4 installed and with the exception of a few bugs it worked well. I'm currently running vBulletin 3.6.4 with no plans to upgrade any time soon because I have no compelling reason to do so. I have some addons and hacks installed and I just don't want to go through all the template edits again until I have a really good reason to do so.

When I saw this mod, I uninstalled Anymedia 3.0.4 then installed this one.

The addon that I'm having problems with is Zoints Local. When I had Anymedia 3.0.4 installed, I could use [MEDIA]url[/MEDIA] to embed media in my Zoints profile pages and it worked just fine. Strangely, even though 3.0.4 has been completely uninstalled, there is a working remnant of it here: http://www.majorleaguetalk.com/forum...ead&threadid=2

What's strange is that if you look right below the Anymedia 3.0.4 window that IS displayed, you will see MEDIA tags around a youtube url, meaning that the MEDIA BB code is not recognized in the zoints profile pages in posts after the upgrade while the tags are recognized in posts made prior to the Anymedia upgrade....very strange. I know my users would sure love to see this working. I've also noticed that the Blue MEDIA tag icon does not appear in the message editor toolbar and it DID when I used 3.0.4.

I realize that this problem may have nothing to do with the Anymedia plugin itself but I'm at my wits end as to how to get it working. I really don't want to revert back to 3.0.4. It's going to take someone a bit smarter than me to figure this one out. I've had several issues with addons I'm using as far as passing on global variables to VBAdvanced, IBProarcade, etc. so I'm thinking this might be an issue that is similar in nature to the global variable issue that I've had.

Anybody have any ideas or suggestion?
As you can see in the thread below, this addon works just fine in my regular vBulletin forums.

http://www.majorleaguetalk.com/forum...ad.php?t=23458

[jdelasko]

I'd love to see support for this in in AnyMedia. Being able to easily make (free) screen recordings and share them directly inside vBulletin will be a boon for many sites.

Anymedia does support this if you put the 'shared' files on your own server instead of screencast.

The only problem I see would be that you would have to resize the swf file for anymedia.


Awesome application though. I'll put this to work right away!

[nix]

Originally Posted by testebr

nix, can you give us any news about development of new version? Just curious

It will be ready when it's ready. JK. I've always wanted to say that

Soon I hope. It's been a crazy two months for me. Dad died, wife and kids were in a car accident (everyone is okay).

Originally Posted by smp3000

I'm having a similar issue.

I installed the latest beta on 3.6.7 and can't get the plugin to work.

I've triple checked the edits to the style pages, the usergroup, forum and anymedia settings, all are turned on and the "M" is still not showing up in the user bar as well as when I post links it's showing up unfiltered (media bbcode showing)

I'm out of ideas, any help?

If you want the M button make sure you did the template edits. The M button is only needed if you want to add options to the link.

Originally Posted by Tralala

It has an embed feature:

http://blog.jingproject.com/2007/08/...om_screen.html
http://tootechy.blogspot.com/2007/08...deo-embed.html

In the new version 1.4 of the app, the share and embed strings that are put on the clipboard can be customized.

I'd love to see support for this in in AnyMedia. Being able to easily make (free) screen recordings and share them directly inside vBulletin will be a boon for many sites.

I'll see what I can do.

Originally Posted by jdelasko

First of all, I really like this mod. I have it installed on my site and it works great in all the forums. I previously had Anymedia 3.0.4 installed and with the exception of a few bugs it worked well. I'm currently running vBulletin 3.6.4 with no plans to upgrade any time soon because I have no compelling reason to do so. I have some addons and hacks installed and I just don't want to go through all the template edits again until I have a really good reason to do so.

When I saw this mod, I uninstalled Anymedia 3.0.4 then installed this one.

The addon that I'm having problems with is Zoints Local. When I had Anymedia 3.0.4 installed, I could use [MEDIA]url[/MEDIA] to embed media in my Zoints profile pages and it worked just fine. Strangely, even though 3.0.4 has been completely uninstalled, there is a working remnant of it here: http://www.majorleaguetalk.com/forum...ead&threadid=2

What's strange is that if you look right below the Anymedia 3.0.4 window that IS displayed, you will see MEDIA tags around a youtube url, meaning that the MEDIA BB code is not recognized in the zoints profile pages in posts after the upgrade while the tags are recognized in posts made prior to the Anymedia upgrade....very strange. I know my users would sure love to see this working. I've also noticed that the Blue MEDIA tag icon does not appear in the message editor toolbar and it DID when I used 3.0.4.

I realize that this problem may have nothing to do with the Anymedia plugin itself but I'm at my wits end as to how to get it working. I really don't want to revert back to 3.0.4. It's going to take someone a bit smarter than me to figure this one out. I've had several issues with addons I'm using as far as passing on global variables to VBAdvanced, IBProarcade, etc. so I'm thinking this might be an issue that is similar in nature to the global variable issue that I've had.

Anybody have any ideas or suggestion?
As you can see in the thread below, this addon works just fine in my regular vBulletin forums.

http://www.majorleaguetalk.com/forum...ad.php?t=23458

I'll look into it.

Originally Posted by jdelasko

Anymedia does support this if you put the 'shared' files on your own server instead of screencast.

The only problem I see would be that you would have to resize the swf file for anymedia.


Awesome application though. I'll put this to work right away!

You can set the size of the player with options.

[jdelasko]

I'll look into it.

Thanks. I'd really appreciate it. It really has me baffled

You can set the size of the player with options.

True, and that will work fine for some partial screen recordings. In the case where you're making a full screen recording, it isn't practical and resizing a full screen recording would not always produce good results.

I didn't even know the application existed before I read about it here. I will get a lot of use out of it making screen recordings to show my users how to use certain features.

[bostton1]

people are randomly getting this error.

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.8:

Invalid SQL:
UPDATE post SET anymedia_yes=1 WHERE postid=;

MySQL Error : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 1
Error Number : 1064

[nix]

update to the latest version.

On a side note. Anyone using php 4 still? Thinking of moving to php 5 only since php 4's end life is near.