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/
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• 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.

[nix]

Yes with vbulletin attachments.

[Celtkin]

For our site, we see it work about 90% on Youtube URLs but fails on on certain Youtube URLs. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to it, IMO.

[nix]

well a link to a video that doesn't work might help. Other wise its hard to fix it.

[leroub]

tx for your fantastic hack...

I have a problem with a swf files... when i push to play swf... i have only 10 seconds each time... why???

thx for your help...

[nix]

Might be a silly question, but are they only 10 seconds long?

[leroub]

No, my video was about 2 to 3 minutes. When I try to listen to the videos, the time that gives me the player is 10 seconds. However if I click the cursor to return time back, my video continues to the end, or if I let go of the cursor.

thx for your help...

[nix]

Not sure if thats related to this mod. But I'll look into it.

[leroub]

Before loading my video...



After 9 seconds, my video is not finished...


At the end... my video stop.... the problem is it the flash player (flvplayer.swf) ??? where in code, you put a 10 seconds by default ???

[leroub]

thx for your help Nix... I found my problem...

When i create a SWF file with ADOBE Captivate, the file info, is not recognize by the player.... i use camasia now... ;-)

thx for your fantastic hack.... :up:

[Mesohu]

it's doesn't work :s anymore , i don't know why.

i'm running vB 3.7 RC 3 , in vB 7.0 RC 2 and above versions it worked fine without problem ... since Thursday since i have upgraded to the latest version it doesn't work anymore.
when i post YT Links , i get live links ... when i use [media]yt-link[/media] i get a text : media ... ?

can you take a look to update it or anything ?