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.

[seanadl]

This is working sporadically. Sometimes when a user posts a youtube video it just displays it as a link, and other times ,usually when you've reedited the post a couple of times, it displayed correctly.

The media tags, when inserting them manually, get stripped and converted into a link. And also the old anymedia tags on the board now no longer work and it requires me going in and re-editing everyones posts with media (usually a couple of times) before the software will pick up on it and display the videos correctly.

Is there some kind of bug?

[Chadi]

I did a speed test on my site www.talkjesus.com and it seems a huge portion of the load time is coming from GB script/images.

http://www.websiteoptimization.com/s...nalyze/wso.php

[nix]

Originally Posted by Finster

I got the answer about the Blue M, thanks.

How come sometimes an uploaded jpg image does the highslide and lightbox thing, other times it does not lightbox but just highslides?

Not sure what you mean.

Originally Posted by Mutt

I made a redtube.com plugin. is it ok to share here?

Yes. And you can make a ton more!

Originally Posted by BlackxRam

I am getting

PHP Code:

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in /blogs/plugins/usercp_nav_start.php on line 7 


ect ect ect

When I click Profile Video in the Control Panel.

Did i miss a fix for this? I just downloaded the newest version..

Why is it going to /blogs?

The newest version is 1.8.

Originally Posted by seanadl

This is working sporadically. Sometimes when a user posts a youtube video it just displays it as a link, and other times ,usually when you've reedited the post a couple of times, it displayed correctly.

The media tags, when inserting them manually, get stripped and converted into a link. And also the old anymedia tags on the board now no longer work and it requires me going in and re-editing everyones posts with media (usually a couple of times) before the software will pick up on it and display the videos correctly.

Is there some kind of bug?

What is the youtube link they are posting? If it turns back into a link then its not the correct link.

Originally Posted by chadi

I did a speed test on my site www.talkjesus.com and it seems a huge portion of the load time is coming from GB script/images.

http://www.websiteoptimization.com/s...nalyze/wso.php

If you're using 1.5 with highslide that just how the it is. 1.8 has a smaller footprint but its still noticeable. I'm working on something even smaller though.

I didn't get all the bugs in 1.8 just some of the major ones. I'm doing some paid work again (have to feed the family) and once I'm done I'll push out another version.

[Chadi]

Thanks nix. I'm actually using 1.8 version. Appreciate your hard work brother

[Finster]

Thanks for the reply Nix.

What I meant was when a user uploads an image to a post, GB is supposed to render it where when one clicks on the image thumbnail, it does two things:

1. It enlarges the thumbnail to a larger image ala highslide, and it darkens the entire screen with the exception of the image, hence the "lightbox" effect.

We previously had Highslide installed, but since I understand this mod comes with it, we deleted the previous Highslide stuff.

Now most images highslide and then lightbox just fine, but some images do not lightbox, they only highslide to a larger image.

I hope that explains it better.

This is a REALLY cool mod by the way, so I am looking forward to you being able to "put food on the table" ; ) and refining this more. Thanks

[gpc10347]

Nice mod! I think I have it working well for images and audio/video but PDF's seem to be ignored or simply converted to URL's. I figured there might be a adobe_pdf.php file in extensions but that's apparently incorrect.

Where might I look for the issue? I've located several references to /vb/ and /forum/ hard coded paths in the latest version I installed but don't have the experience to know if that might cause issues...

(Also, should the goldbrick_post.php that's in the zip be empty?)

Update: In trying to diagnose the issues I'm experiencing.. I seem to be able to affect displays by modifying the contents of goldbrick_test. Is this a fluke or is it legitimately using it? (<param NAME="URL" VALUE="info[url]"><param> put me on the hunt as it was missing the $ and the URL flaked out...)

[seanadl]

The other thing i've noticed, despite uninstalling anymedia, some posts still have the big "M" on their players. Also, how do we get it to go through all old posts with media tags, or with links to video's and convert them into players? I've even tried re-editing some older posts and the player won't display.

[Ftu-forum]

Sorry
Seems it doesn't work with .wma extension
:-?

[cillianok]

Where is the list of websites supported listed?

[rapidphim]

I have been waited for so long for the upgrade version release but nothing yet... :-( I'm running out of my patience