AnyMedia BBCode for 3.5.x

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# Jun.7th, 2006 17:00 GMT+8 #
# AnyMedia BBCode 3.0.4 Release #
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@ Overview
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Products to Import: 1
Template Modifications: 4
File to Upload: 7 (2 swf, 1 gif, 3 php, 1 js)

@ Description
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Use only ONE bbcode to post almost 60 kinds of file,
and flash videos from more than 10 sites.

@ Credits
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Author of the Hack -- Crist Chsu
Author of Flash Single MP3 Player -- Jeroenwijering.COM
Author of Flash Video Player -- Jeroenwijering.COM
Author of PHP BEncode Library -- Gerard Krijgsman
Special thanks to Andreas's great suggestion, which made the mod become a plugin.

@ Translations
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Simplified Chinese by Crist Chsu (http://www.QuChao.com)
Traditional Chinese by Crist Chsu (http://www.QuChao.com)
German by Oberguru (http://www.webgurus.de)
Arabic by Coffee (http://www.shinqit.net)
Hebrew by Dacho (http://www.dacho.co.il)
Italian by Fulvio di Stefano (http://www.internetdiffusion.com)

@ Supported Extensions
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Adobe Flash:
swf, spl, flv

Quick Time:
mov, qt, mqv, mpeg, mpg, m1s, m1v, m1a, m75, m15, mp2, mpm, mpv, mpa, flc, fli, cel, rtsp, rts, 3gp, 3gpp, 3g2, 3gp2, sdv, amc, mp4, sdp

Real Media:
rm, rmvb, ra, rv, ram, smil

Windows Media:
mp3, wma, wav, ogg, ape, mid, midi, asf, asx, wm, wmv, wsx, wax, wvx, avi

Adobe PDF:
pdf, fdf, xfdf, xdp, xfd

Image File:
gif, jpg, jpeg, bmp, png, xpm

P2P File:
torrent, emule, foxy, pplive

@ Supported Flash Video Sites
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Google (http://video.google.com/)
Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/)
vSocial (http://www.vsocial.com/)
iFilm (http://www.ifilm.com/)
MetaCafe (http://www.metacafe.com/)
DailyMotion (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/)
CurrentTV (http://www.current.tv/studio/)
Vimeo (http://www.vimeo.com/)
Sharkle (http://www.sharkle.com/video/)
FreeVideoBlog (http://video.freevideoblog.com/)
MyVideoDe (http://www.myvideo.de/)

@ Features
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You're allowed to ...
1. Custom the tag name;
2. Custom the title of the player;
3. Decide which usergroup could see the download link;
4. Use Flash Single Mp3 Player to play the mp3 file;
5. Custom the width & height of the media;
6. Decide whether to make the media autostart by default;
7. Decide whether to collapse the player box by default;
8. Play the Google Videos via proxy;
9. Auto-detect the attachment type;
10. Use AnyMedia player to play attachments;
11. Custom the default value of loop;
12. Filter the AnyMedia BBCodes in Quote tags;
13. Choose which extension could be supported;
14. Choose whether to use AnyMedia Player or not for each supported video site;

@ How to Use
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Tag without options:
[MEDIA]url_of_the_file[/MEDIA]

ex.
[MEDIA]http://server/file.mp3[/MEDIA]
Shown as a mp3 player (Use the flash mp3 player by default).

Tag with options:
[MEDIA="width, height, autostart, loop, extension"]url_of_the_file[/MEDIA]
[MEDIA="width, height, autostart, loop"]url_of_the_file[/MEDIA]
[MEDIA="width, height, autostart"]url_of_the_file[/MEDIA]
[MEDIA="width, height"]url_of_the_file[/MEDIA]

ex.
[MEDIA="300,380,yes,2,rm"]http://server/file.mp3[/MEDIA]
It will use the real player to play the file.mp3,
the object is 300px width, 380px height,
it will autostart and will repeat for twice.

[MEDIA=250,150,0,3]http://server/file.flv[/MEDIA]
It will use the flash player to play the file.flv,
the object is 250px width, 150px height,
it'll NOT autostart but will repeat for 3 times.

[MEDIA=400,480,false]http://server/file.swf[/MEDIA]
It will use the flash player to play the file.swf,
the object is 400px width, 480px height,
and it'll NOT autostart.

[MEDIA=421,211]http://server/file.pdf[/MEDIA]
It will post the pdf object on the page,
the object is 421px width, 211px height.

Other Rules:
1.WIDTH and HEIGHT are both required if you want to add options；
2.Available values for the AUTOSTART option: 1, true & yes.
3.Separate the options with commas.

@ Change Logs
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[1.1.0]
[BUG] Hide the "download link" will show a warning
[NEW] Usergroup Permission Restriction

[1.2.0]
[DEL] Codes Modifications (Thanks to Andreas's suggestion)
[CHG] Allow every group to use anymedia by default
[NEW] Cache the Templates

[1.3.0]
[CHG] Use Google Video Player to play the Google's.
[NEW] Allow to play the wsx, wav and the flv files from google, youtube, vsocial .
[NEW] Allow you to custom the tag name.
[NEW] Allow you to set the title for the player box.
[NEW] Allow you to collapse the player box by default.
[BUG] Playing a WMV file with no pictures.

[2.0.0]
[CHG] Change the method of loading, Fix the "Bug" that long loading.
[NEW] "Fix" the 'Activating Active Content' issues in the new IE Update. （It means that, if you've installed the new IE update, there's no need to Click the media object before you want to play it ）

[2.1.0]
[BUG] Fix the bug that cannot autoplay a wmv (& etc.) file.
[BUG] Fix the bug that when custom the video size of google/youtube/vsocial will get a non-supportted error.
[NEW] Let you to choose whether to play a google video through a proxy. It's useful for Chinese users.

[2.2.0]
[BUG] Fix the bug that cannot autoplay a wmv on Firefox.
[BUG] Fix the bug that auto play a google/youtube/vsocial video when disable it.

[2.3.0]
[BUG] Fix a tiny bug with bt parsing.
[NEW] Support the attachments from your own forum, and you could switch it off.

[3.0.0]
[CHG] Rebuild the code of the whole AnyMedia.
[CHG] Use flvplayer to play Google Video again.
[BUG] Fix the bug that error with parsing when allow_url_fopen's off.
[BUG] Fix a bug with url parsing.
[BUG] Fix the parsing error of youtube video.
[NEW] eMule & foxy types added.
[NEW] loop option added.
[NEW] Use AnyMedia Player to play the attachment when upload one.
[NEW] 8 More flash video sites supported.
[NEW] Chinese versions added.

[3.0.1]
[BUG] Fixed the bug that cannot autoplay a wmv (& etc.) file.
[BUG] Fixed the bug that always insert a tag named [media].
[CHG] Hide AnyMedia button in editor when disable it.
[CHG] Hide AnyMedia Player for unsupported attachment.
[NEW] Multi-Language Documents added. It will auto-detect the language when you open it.
[LAN] German version by Oberguru (http://www.webgurus.de) added.
[LAN] Arabic version by Coffee (http://shinqit.net) added.

[3.0.2]
[BUG] Fixed the bug that cannot disable extensions in admincp .
[BUG] Fixed the bug with youtube playing session.
[CHG] Used a special player to play youtube video.
[NEW] Added an option to switch the youtube video playing method.
[NEW] You could use 'Ctrl + wheel' to resize the image now.
[NEW] New option added in admincp, you could choose whether to disable AnyMedia BBCode in Quote tags.

[3.0.3]
[BUG] Fixed the bug with mp3's (flash player) autoplay issue.
[BUG] Fixed the bug with flv's autoplay issue.
[BUG] Fixed the bug with 3gp files' parsing error.
[BUG] Fixed the bug with iamges' resize issue.
[BUG] Fixed the bug with attachments' autoplay issue.
[NEW] Support the latest Google Movie Preview (http://video.google.com/movietrailers.html).
[LAN] Hebrew version by Dacho (http://www.dacho.co.il) added.

[3.0.4]
[BUG] Get Google Video back to work again.
[NEW] PPLive supported. You could watch the World Cup Live on your board with your members now. Which team will be the biggest winner this time? :banana: (It can only work with IE, sigh...:surprised: )
[NEW] New option group added in admincp, you could choose whether to use build-in player for each supported sites.


@ Frequently Asked Questions
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Q: I got white screen when playing a google video.
A: AnyMedia fetch the correct video url, but there's sth wrong with the flvplayer.swf, try to refresh the page to solve it.

Q: When using mp3player.swf to play mp3, it's played fast/slowly.
A: Flash doesn't support vbr (variable bit rate) mp3 files.It only support a mp3 with a fixed bitrate of 64/96/128 kbps ,a sample frequency of 22.05kHz and joint stereo. To solve it, turn the option off in admincp to make it be played by WMP.

Q: I have to click play button twice to play a google video.
A: Emmm... Even using the google player, you also have to click twice. I don't know why, and I'm trying to fixed it. If you know, just tell me.

Q: The supported extensions checkbox are always unchecked even if I check them all.
A: The permission cache is not updated. Overwrite the 'includes/xml/bitfield_anymedia.xml' file, and log into your admincp to visit 'admincp/index.php?do=buildbitfields' to rebuild the permission cache.

Q: When I use build-in player to play Youtube, it will be loading all the time.
A: To use the build-in player to play Youtube videos, your server have to enable the 'allow_url_fopen' option, or enable the 'fsockopen / curl_init' functions. If failed, turn the 'Use AnyMedia Player for Youtube Video' option off in admincp.

Q: I cannot get the PPLive working with my Firefox or etc.
A: As far as I know, the pplive object can only work with IE. And if you know how to embed it on FireFox, just tell me.

@ Todo
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1. Add a Playlist.
2. Integrate it with CMPS, Link & Download Sys, and etc.
3. read ID3 tag.

@ Notes
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1. We need other translations, if you made one, just PM me.

If you like the hack, Please click .

I DO NOT know whether I should update the hack.
I'm not a coder of vBulletin-Chinese Team now, as I left there weeks ago.
Sorry about this, and I'll tell you how the update's going if it's really on the way.

[ZiG]

waiting for update!!!

in IE i am getting a white screen, refreshing the page doesn't help much either...very rarely does the white screen go away and the video actually works.

in firefox everything works perfect!

this is a great hack, am looking forward to it working perfect on all browsers. please give us an update!!

[Tom Haney]

I had a situation that has been described by several others in this thread. I thought I installed everything but I did not see the anymedia options on the user permission screen. The issue for me was that I unpacked the files in the vb root and had them unzipped to their recursed directories. As a result I had an "upload" directory full of files that belonged one level up. I moved those files to their true homes and I can now see the anymedia options in the user permission screen. Tom

[KevNJ]

I had a problem with version all version before this newest 3.0.4 version. Did another fresh install of this. and Boom works perfectly on the first try.

AWESOME!!!

How could we get this to work inside profiles?

[nymyth]

Originally Posted by ZiG

waiting for update!!!

in IE i am getting a white screen, refreshing the page doesn't help much either...very rarely does the white screen go away and the video actually works.

in firefox everything works perfect!

this is a great hack, am looking forward to it working perfect on all browsers. please give us an update!!

Im having a similar issue...anybody have any ideas??? Also will this ported over to 3.6? Cheers

Peace

[Selene]

Originally Posted by ZiG

waiting for update!!!

in IE i am getting a white screen, refreshing the page doesn't help much either...very rarely does the white screen go away and the video actually works.

in firefox everything works perfect!

this is a great hack, am looking forward to it working perfect on all browsers. please give us an update!!

exactly same problem im having!

[wolfyman]

Originally Posted by G_Man

Crist - something I would like to see is the ability to 'hide' the player. Would be good for playing sound on a page without having a player visible.

Thanks again for the hard work and the great hack.

I definately DO NOT want that - if Crist does it, I hope it comes with an option to disable it.


Unless the new version comes with the ability to only allow certain usergroups to use the media function.
i don't want to open a thread, realize I am downloading 300 MB of audio, and then have to edit every post to find out which jerk did it!!!!!

[wolfyman]

OK, I just upgraded to 3.6 and I can't seem to figure this out - I edited all the templates, imported the hack, and my forum is not parsing the [media] code.

Any ideas?

[wolfyman]

nevermind - I rebuilt my forum info and post cache and it seems to be working great

[G_Man]

Originally Posted by wolfyman

I definately DO NOT want that - if Crist does it, I hope it comes with an option to disable it.


Unless the new version comes with the ability to only allow certain usergroups to use the media function.
i don't want to open a thread, realize I am downloading 300 MB of audio, and then have to edit every post to find out which jerk did it!!!!!

haha!! I never imagined having this option without usergroup permissions!!! LOL

Otherwise, yes, that could suck!!

[wolfyman]

Ok, sorry to jump on you - I have a hard enough time trying to convince my members that it's a BAD thing to embedd 6 videos in one thread LOL!