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.

[codershark]

hmm so much bugs and mistakes in the Hack and no updates since a lot of weeks, sorry but you lie when you say you support it !

I have remove the hack.

[gwerzal]

Originally Posted by Kicks

mhh .. i installed the addon today and get a error message

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ')' in /public_html/forum/goldbrick/plugins/bbcode_create.php on line 53

I had that problem and all i had to do was email my host and ask them to upgrade it.

Now i am stuck with the problem that only admins can see the viseos for some reason if anyone can find a fix.

[testebr]

Originally Posted by codershark

hmm so much bugs and mistakes in the Hack and no updates since a lot of weeks, sorry but you lie when you say you support it !

I have remove the hack.

Comments as this discourages any developer. You should recognize the great work accomplished in this mod and to await calmly for the new version that was already promised by the author.

I am disappointed in several aspects, but I will never make a cowardly comment as yours.

Time of donations for the nix guy.

[sweeps78]

Comments as this discourages any developer. You should recognize the great work accomplished in this mod and to await calmly for the new version that was already promised by the author.

I am disappointed in several aspects, but I will never make a cowardly comment as yours.

Time of donations for the nix guy

Well said! I miss the good ol days (pre-internet) when you could take people that make comments like this outside, haha

[unitedpunjab]

This hack is working flawlessly on my board since 3.7 beta 2.
never ever had any problem.

[jswiss]

I will also add:

trashing the developer (nix) for a free mod which is excellent isn't going to get you any points. it will only discourage him because of your silly comment.

It's an excellent mod.
It's free.

So, please think before you post.

Have a nice day

[naisho]

Just a question about this hack and images.
When we have a few images in a post, are we supposed to have arrows in the highslide window to navigate to next or previous image, or have we got to click on each thumbnail?
In the "alt" message there is "click to close, use the arrow keys for next and previous"

On my test site, there is no arrow and I must click on every thumb. Is it the way it works?

[xanthide]

Nice work m8 i am buidling a new forum today and i need this a lot.

[ADomoWorld]

Is .mov able to play.. Ive found they seem to not play..

[sweeps78]

I was finally able to upgrade my server to PHP 5.2.5 and MYSQL to 5.0.45-community. I am running vbulletin 3.7 RC 1 and will be updating to Gold this week when it's released.

So, I'm wondering... do I meet all the requirements to get this sweet looking plugin to work now? I'm totally pumped to start using this plugin, but I want to make sure that I have everything on my end up to spec before I try to install it.