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.

[jeremycs]

Originally Posted by AdmiralSpock

But Windows Media, flash, and .jpg images all work through the anymedia player. All I had to do was install it the normal way.

If you allow users to upload flash files to be played through anymedia, you're asking for big problems. A malicious user could easily trick you or your members into giving up their username & password for your forum.

In the event that they trick an ADMIN, moderator or other superuser into giving up their login information, then this could obviously cause a lot of problems.

[AdmiralSpock]

Originally Posted by jeremycs

If you allow users to upload flash files to be played through anymedia, you're asking for big problems. A malicious user could easily trick you or your members into giving up their username & password for your forum.

In the event that they trick an ADMIN, moderator or other superuser into giving up their login information, then this could obviously cause a lot of problems.

We don't allow users to post using the [media] tags. It's just admins, mods, and other staff. I'm not that stupid

How about selfish users expecting free updates for life on a free use-at-your-own-risk hack.

I didn't say I expected free updates for life. Had you taken the effort to read a few pages back, I had said that I and those who use this hack would appreciate a "stability" update to make sure that it works on 3.6. And if you would have taken the time to look at the first post, Crist states that he does not know if he will update the hack or not. If I knew PHP I would do it in a heartbeat. Perhaps someone else will update the hack, I don't know. Que sera, sera.

[jeremycs]

Originally Posted by AdmiralSpock

We don't allow users to post using the [media] tags. It's just admins, mods, and other staff. I'm not that stupid.

Depending on the forum audience, it should be fine to allow the media tags.

As long as they are mature enough to know that it's possible that they will likely see something they might wish they hadn't once in awhile. :P

But it's allowing .swf (and other macromedia flash type) files to be played that is the problem. A person could easily create a flash file that would automatically redirect the browser upon loading. They could redirect it to a page that looks just like your forum login screen, steal the password & log the user user back in as if nothing happened.

The files from places like youtube, google video, etc when played through their respective players are flash & could pose the exact same problem.... but I seriously doubt that google or youtube will attempt to do anything malicious to your forum.

Originally Posted by AdmiralSpock

And if you would have taken the time to look at the first post, Crist states that he does not know if he will update the hack or not. If I knew PHP I would do it in a heartbeat. Perhaps someone else will update the hack, I don't know. Que sera, sera.

I don't need to look at the first post to know that authors of any of these free hacks are subject to disappear at any time. How's that for stability? :P

I understand what you're saying, but every time you click "INSTALL" you have to understand that you are taking and accepting a large number of risks.

If you're really worried about it, then don't install what you (or your programmers) can't audit & maintain.


The only thing that is really guaranteed is the base Vbulletin code.... and they do a pretty fine job

But you pay annually for updates to Vbulletin.

If you didn't, you could be sure that the Vbulletin wouldn't have anywhere near as many updates and timely fixes.

[jeremycs]

Anyway I wouldn't be surprised if in the next year or so Vbulletin integrates something like this natively. If they don't, their competitors probably will & then vbulletin will have to.

[AdmiralSpock]

I don't know if anyone else has looked into this, but those of you having problems with YouTube on AnyMedia might want to look at this:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...t=Media+BBCode

Edit: I just found a Google Video BBCode that was already made.. here it is https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=120212

Hopefully this might help someone who's having problems with these two until there is an update to the anymedia

[hnjco]

I installed on my 3.6 board..

Everything working fine but for Google Videos i got message Error: unsupported media type.

anyone for help?

[nix]

I posted how to get google video to work. But you have to use googles player. Which is no big deal IMO. Working fine on a 3.6 board and added some other sites to it.

[Sarthek]

it doesnt show a videos in IE, in firefox it works fine

vb 3.5.4

[itorrents]

It worked fine for me, but one thing I've noticed is that with the .flv files I have hosted that they stop showing up in the original post after a couple days! I can add a new post with the exact same link in the thread and it'll show up again in that post.

[DementedMindz]

yeah i posted about that before but he failed to update it also dont update your post cache either or you will have to edit all your videos again