Major Additions - Goldbrick Audio/Video Media System

Goldbrick Media system for vBulletin 3.7

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

Planned Features:

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

Install Instructions:

1. Upload file contents in the upload folder.
2. Import the Product.xml

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


Supported Video Sites: 19 so far. Looking in goldbrick/sites folder for a full list. Users can create their own. I'll post a HOW-TO with the details.



Please report any issues or suggestions.

[StepOnFrog]

Originally Posted by StepOnFrog

Nix, I would like for Goldbrick to throw up a big sign to my members when they try to post a media link, saying something like "You accept full responsibility for the media you are trying to submit. By clicking the ACCEPT button, you confirm that the media link you are submitting is not associated with any activities deemed illegal (in whichever country the server resides in). Blah blah blah,,,, and so on" And, then have a HUGE button with the word ACCEPT written across it, and another that says cancel. Or, something on these lines.

Is there a way to do this ^^

thanks in advance.

Anything on this???

[ImageMavericks]

Any word on screencast support?

[Arcania]

I have a "little" Problem with 1.91. When i try to play a Video, Goldbrick access the File as Guest, so in private Forums the Users see nothing. Under "Who is Online" i can see that in the background they become a "permission denied" and tracked as Guests.

[Bommando]

I had a good search of this thread, but couldn't find a previous post about the issue.

Is there any way to parse links to videos posted before this product was installed? I used PassiveVid before and my URLs are all plain links. I saw someone post a similar problem earlier, but without response. All newly posted videos are parsed just fine, but old links remain as plain links.

Rebuilding the post cache didn't work and actually reset all [media] tags in new posts. It seems this product only activates upon submission of a post. It also doesn't seem to work when using the AJAX edit function, only when in advanced mode.

Can anyone shed light on what I'm doing wrong, or if you have found a solution to batch update posts with correctly parsed media tags?

[ANGELO2K8]

how can i turn off the automatic parsing of media links?

if i post a mp3 for direct download the goldbrick system automatically turns the link into a media box and I don't want that.

I want my users to use the MEDIA tag for this to work.

[cosy]

anyone can make a script for this site www.ted.com ?

[Cees]

hi,

I cant play any quick time files.. I uploaded a file to my server and made a link to it, i see the icon and when i click on it to see the film, i get a pop screen thats white.. Is that a known something ??

[ubeaut]

.avi's don't work, .pdf's don't work, any videos loaded before goldbrick don't work, the vBulletin light box works but it's as slow as a wet weekend, the viewer doesn't have controls in firefox prior to the latest version and even in that one they disappear after a few seconds.

I've gone through this thread a dozen times and can't find fixes other than it doesn't work properly in firefox 2x. I'm using v1.91 Is it just me or is everyone else experiencing these problems as well? If you think you aren't you're probably using ie and forgetting about all the users of firefox, opera, safari, etc yet strangely enough it seems to work well in Google Chrome.

Excellent hack. But....... I'll be happier when I can get it all working right. Been messing with it for a number of weeks and waiting for the full version that hopefully fixes everything. Come on Nix show us your stuff. I'm sure it'll be fantastic when it's finished.

Any ideas as to when that might be?

Cheers - Neil

PS have had to turn .pdf's off because they were causing a problem now members keep getting this error message (probably because they're turned off)
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in [path]/goldbrick/includes/class_goldbrick.php on line 666 Having a devil of a time fixing it.

[Chadi]

Quick question...

Is there any way to have the "my media" section strictly for godtube.com, or at least submissions put into moderation queue for approval?

[Warion]

I have installed 1.5 and its not working. I tried uploading the video as an attachment as to the install but it wont. I have tried loading from browser and have the video uploaded in my ftp but it wont recognize. Its a qt video also, its one of teh ones that this programs claims is compatabile. All I want is someone to explain and maybe help me to upload it peoperly.

Thx