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.

[Tralala]

Originally Posted by nix

The quickreply I wouldn't really consider a bug. But you should'nt have to refresh a regular page. If you want to change it its in the anymedia template. But its basically means you don't have flash or you don't have javascript.

That's just it; I have both flash, and javascript, and the mod still works otherwise (as does every other page and tool that uses flash and javascript.) That error is appearing, erroneously.

[Tralala]

I am also noticing that DailyMotion isn't working. At least not this video:

http://www.dailymotion.com/starbex/v...single-image-s

The Media Player window appears but is empty.

[ammoskumar]

ya can you please fix the Dailymotion and putfile Plz NIX

[Dannyloski]

Nix any news on the New Version?

I am now getting the You need to upgrade your Flash Player tags. error, when posting a video from the QuickReply, before (other version) it wasn't happening. Hmmm ...

[Finster]

This hack is GREAT!

BUT.....

When it renders inline a Stage6 video, it takes a 16:9 aspect video on Stage6 and makes it a standard 4:3.

Anyway it would be awesome if you could make it display a 16:9 as such and a 4:3 as such without changing the aspect ratio.

Stage6 seems to be the only game in town for HD video and we like to keep our 16:9 videos that way.

The other thing I noticed is it just generates a side by side media BB code, but that is not as intuitive as it doesn't have directions on what one is supposed to do with the opening and closing BB tags. The other media player had a popup window that was more intuitive.

Sure, all of us here know how to use the media bbcodes, but what about the average newbie to a discussion forum?

Thanks!

[nix]

It will be out tonight or tomorrow. I have it working on my test site. Just looking at a couple of things.

Not sure about the popup. I've been using this hack sense it came out and I've never seen it. All the features that the other one had this one also has. I'm thinking about adding in a setting to use the videos sites default height and width. But not everyone can use that. Some people have narrow forums.

@ Features
---------------------------------
You're allowed to ...
1. Custom the tag name;
2. Custom the title of the player;
3. Decide which usergroup could see the download link;
4. Use Flash Single Mp3 Player to play the mp3 file;
5. Custom the width & height of the media;
6. Decide whether to make the media autostart by default;
7. Decide whether to collapse the player box by default;
8. Play the Google Videos via proxy;
9. Auto-detect the attachment type;
10. Use AnyMedia player to play attachments;
11. Custom the default value of loop;
12. Filter the AnyMedia BBCodes in Quote tags;
13. Choose which extension could be supported;
14. Choose whether to use AnyMedia Player or not for each supported video site;

@ How to Use
---------------------------------
Tag without options:
[MEDIA]url_of_the_file[/MEDIA]

ex.
[MEDIA]http://server/file.mp3[/MEDIA]
Shown as a mp3 player (Use the flash mp3 player by default).

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]

ex.
[MEDIA="300,380,yes,2,rm"]http://server/file.mp3[/MEDIA]
It will use the real player to play the file.mp3,
the object is 300px width, 380px height,
it will autostart and will repeat for twice.

[MEDIA=250,150,0,3]http://server/file.flv[/MEDIA]
It will use the flash player to play the file.flv,
the object is 250px width, 150px height,
it'll NOT autostart but will repeat for 3 times.

[MEDIA=400,480,false]http://server/file.swf[/MEDIA]
It will use the flash player to play the file.swf,
the object is 400px width, 480px height,
and it'll NOT autostart.

[MEDIA=421,211]http://server/file.pdf[/MEDIA]
It will post the pdf object on the page,
the object is 421px width, 211px height.

Other Rules:
1.WIDTH and HEIGHT are both required if you want to add options；
2.Available values for the AUTOSTART option: 1, true & yes.
3.Separate the options with commas.

[nix]

Updated

3.0.9
- Completely changed Video Site permissions.
- Fixed some embed bugs (can't test with IE, so let me know how it goes)
- Added Video Titles
- Added Sevenload.com
- Added Putfile.com
- Added photobucket.com (beta)

I know the admin options for this is kind of cluttered right now. I'll fix that in a later release.

[Miles_Binck]

Just installed v3.0.9 on my test board. For firefox everything works fine with the exception of dailymotion videos not loading. But in IE if I have multiple videos (from any source) in a thread it only loads the first video then spits out a "Error on Page" warning which says

Line: 340
Char: 24
Error: 'null' is null or not an object
Code: 0
URL: http://www.mysite.url/testvb/showthread.php?p=219614

If I view source on the page, line 340 is

<body onload="if (is_ie || is_moz) { fetch_object('currentPost').scrollIntoView(true); }">

I've tried upgrading from every other previous version including v3.0.4. I've also tried a clean install removing everything to do with anymedia beforehand. Cleared cache and cookies, restarted the browser all have no effect.

[Mecho]

i get white page for dailymotion . unsupported tag for youtobe . i didnt test other links yet !

p.s. i upload again all files . i uninstaill and reinstall !

any idea ?

[ammoskumar]

Originally Posted by Mecho

i get white page for dailymotion . unsupported tag for youtobe . i didnt test other links yet !

p.s. i upload again all files . i uninstaill and reinstall !

any idea ?

same here also Putfile.com Error: unsupported media type.