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.

[hobbybox]

Can anyone post a few of the more popular video file extensions and what you would recommend for limits...im new to the videos..I know .mp3 and .avi but what others would you all suggest?

I assume that I need to add thse files for people to upload videos from their PC correcT?

[animesys]

Can it work with mms and rtsp link ??

[RedGTiVR6]

also, I've just had a user point this out to me, in 1.8, 'test' and 'this is a test' appear on attachments and when you click to view the entire attachment.

I'm sure this is just because it's a beta, but I want to be sure!

[taxick]

HI

Can you fix so it can show danish Æ Ø Å in the title. (Chartset UTF-8)

See the picture..

Not Its look like this: Team Easy On Pressemøde - DEL 2

and it must look like this: Team Easy On Pressemøde - DEL 2

[Mutt]

here's my redtube.com plugin. works fine. I was doing alot of guessing when setting it up so if anyone can tweak it, feel free.

just upload it to your "/goldbrick/includes/sites/" dir

[Chadi]

A lot of my members' posts area showing up as regular URL instead of media URL

Some youtube links used:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMrl8m5Iccc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOCdEFWUvN4

Others work fine odd enough. The forum category has GB enabled, member group is enabled, GB global option is also enabled (all media types)

[racechick20]

I have just installed this on my newly upgraded (3.7.1) forum and when we navigate to the forum it's not there but showing this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ')' in /home/sites/mysite.com/public_html/s_forum/goldbrick/plugins/bbcode_create.php on line 53

Please HELP! I have followed all the instructions and have successfully installed it on another forum without any problems.

Edit: I have re-uploaded the bbcode_create.php file but it has made no difference - my forum is still not showing - just the message.

EDIT:

I panicked! My other site is set up for php 5 and I thought I had for this too, but hadn't - I've fixed it by updating the .htaccess file and did the php5.ini whilst I was at it. Was gonna delete this but it may help someone else sometime. Thanks for a wonderful mod!

[racechick20]

Hey, Nix.

Okay, I've been working on this for a while and reading posts in here but haven't managed to solve it.

I've upgraded to 1.8 but can't get my thumbnails to show in the lightbox. I've triple checked the settings, forum and user permissions - I don't think the issue is there.

The videos are working just fine so I am at a bit of a loss as to why the images aren't. This works A1 in my other forum where I have the same GB settings. The only difference I can see is that this forum has bigger thumbnails. I have updated all relevant counters just in case that would solve it but it changes nothing. Any ideas?

We love this mod and appreciate all the work you have already and continue to put into it - a mega thank you for letting us have it free of charge.

Edit: Have resized thumbnails and removed borders. Also re-updated counters. No change.

[nix]

Here's another test version before I put it out live.

I switched back to highslide but I change the way it looks. If you don't like it you can change it to what suits your needs. All highslide settings are in the goldbrick_header template.

I added Zend Cache for media cache so it doesn't have to hit the database if you're not using vb cache. To use it chmod the goldbrick/cache folder so it's writable by the server. Then turn on Goldbrick Cache in Goldbricks options.

This version will empty the gb_cache, gb_media and vb's postparsed tables in the database to prevent any errors.

Bug Fixes that I remember
Back to highslide with a packed version.
Fixed media embed
Fixed attachments

A demo on a friends site.
http://www.pastapadre.com/forum/showthread.php?t=705

[rapidphim]

Thanks Nix... we'll choose Yes for override when import this product? Will it automatically rebuild all media links or we have to manually do each?

Did you fix DailyMotion, MegaVideo?