Major Additions - 8WayRun.Com - Media Library

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This is a new modification, spawning from the old VB 3.x Video Directory modifications.
For all intents and purposes, both my old Video Directory Remixed mod, and Survivor's original Video Directory mod have been discontinued. Neither of us are maintaining these older versions, they will not receive any future updates and we will not be providing any support. This version has a new name because it has been completely rewritten from scratch and is not being built on Survivor's old code. Because of this, if you are upgrading to this new version, from the old version, be sure to read this entire post in order to understand the upgrade process.

What is this mod?
Simply put, this mod is a directory for media. It supports URL inputs, in order to extract meta data and directorize media into a simple and easy to understand library. Users can add their favorite media from a select few online distribution centers (such as Youtube or Vimeo) and categorize and tag them as they see fit. This mod offers rudimentary support for the hosting of local media. An administrator can upload a media to the /customVID/ (default) directory; then add the media to the library using the URL code of "local:filename". Media hosted locally will be displayed using JWPlayer, but will not provide meta data, so that kind of information will need to be entered manually.

Demo:

http://www.8wayrun.com/media.php

Features:

• Integrated directly into the vBulletin user database and product manager.
• Fully phrased and built on tempaltes for easy re-skinning and styling.
• Simple to use administration features and usergroup permission settings.
• Landing page with the most recent, most popular and highest rated media.
• Ability to add media into a single category, while adding multiple tags.
• Ability to browse media through categories, tags, and user contributions.
• Summary tag cloud with a link to the entire list of tags in the system.
• Comment and rating system based on AJAX including graceful degredation.
• Individual RSS Feeds for newest videos, categories, tags and user media.
• Search function for titles and descriptions.

Installation:

If you are upgrading from before version 1.1, please install that version first.

1. Upload all the files in the "upload" directory of the attached zip file to your forum root.
2. CHMOD the /customVID/thumbs/ directory to full read/write/execute 777 permissions.
3. CHMOD the /customVID/sitemap/ directory to full read/write/execute 777 permissions.
4. Import the product file called "product-medialibrary.xml" in the Product Manager of vBulletin.
5. Set your usergroup permissions and media library settings in your administration control panel.
6. OPTIONAL: Enable the "Generate XML Media Sitemap" scheduled task in your administration control panel.
   
   NOTES: Make sure you decide what you wish to use for your thumbnail quality setting. By default, thumbnails are saved at 50% quality. At 50%, thumbnails will only be 2kb in size, but at the expense of quality. At 100%, thumbnails will be about 15kb in size, but will have the highest quality. I recommend setting it to 80%, which would leave thumbnails at 5kb in size with still excellent quality.
   
   Every time you change your thumbnail quality setting, you will need to run the "Rebuild Media Thumbnails" to see any changes.

Upgrading from VDR:

1. The "video*" tables from your previous installation of VDR need to exist in your database.
2. Enable the "media ADMIN import" plugin in the plugin manager of your control panel.
3. Run the "Import Media from VDR" process in your update counters menu in maintenance.
4. Disable the "media ADMIN import" plugin in the plugin manager of your control panel.
5. Run the "Rebuild Media Thumbnails" process in your update counters menu in maintenance.
6. You may now uninstall VDR once you confirm everything has been imported as intended.
   
   NOTES: You will mostly likely get at least one error while rebuilding media thumbnails...
   
   When you get an error, click the details link for that media. If the media displays some sort of error such as "This video has been removed" or "This video no longer exist", then that means that media is gone and you'll be unable to generate a thumbnail for that particular media. Use the available options on that media's detail page to DELETE it from your library. Then go back to your browser window which is rebuilding thumbnails and click the "retry from this position" link.
   
   If you got an error for a media, but after clicking the details link you can find no obvious error with the video; then the error could have just been a simple syn/ack failure. Just click the "retry from this position" link and the system will try to rebuild that thumbnail again.

Known Bugs:

There is a conflict with this modification and some of Valter's VSA modifications that will prevent navbar permissions from being handled correctly. I don't know exactly who's fault it is; but I'm pretty sure there are no errors in my code that would be causing this problem. There is a work around for this however.

Admin Control Panel > Plugins & Products > Plugin Manager > "media NAVTAB"

Find the code:

    $perms = media_permissions();

Replace with:

$perms['rate'] = true;
$perms['comment'] = true;
$perms['submit'] = true;
$perms['playlist'] = true;
 
if (is_member_of($vbulletin->userinfo, explode(',','5,6')))
{
    $perms['modtags'] = true;
    $perms['modcategory'] = true;
    $perms['modservice'] = true;
}

[Delilahs]

I'm on version 4.03

What updates did you do Harleyparts?

[mobe00]

most popular media is not working. it still shows the three first youtube clips i uploaded. And shows only 1 view. I have other clips that been watched 10 times but are not showing up under most popular media ?????

[your24hourstore]

Originally Posted by Delilahs

I'm on version 4.03

What updates did you do Harleyparts?

Oh updates to this mod from the first one to now ive installed them all must have been 8 or 10 of them
seems the 2nd or third update they just appeared below my navbar and they worked. But i did a complete new install on my actual board with this latest zip and cannot get it to show,and yes i have all permissions and htaccess in place
so im baffld, guess i will put them all in one catigory :>

below are mods i have installed maybe one of them is the problem

vBulletin 4.0.3

8WR Media Library 4.0.3 8WayRun.Com - Media Library

Automatic Tagger From Content and Title 4.4.0 Automatically adds tags to according to message content, title and already existing tags in forum.

BBR - Welcome Thread On Register 2.02 Creates a welcome thread when a new user registers

Calendar Search and Download 1.09b Search calendar for events and download results.

Easy Forms 4.0.7 Create Forms without any hassle or fuss. Form list at misc.php?do=forms

EveryWhere Sidebar 1.1.4 This mod will show the sidebar everywhere in the forum if the sidebar is enabled by the administrator

First Post on all pages 1.2 first on all pages

Follow Us 1.4 Puts a follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Myspace on the forumhome

Hide Version 1 Hide Version

Highlight Threadstarter 3.0.0 Release Candidate 3 Highlights the threadstarter

Inactive User Reminder Emails 2.1.1 Sends emails out to inactive users encouraging them to re-visit the forum

iTrader 2.7.0 Trader Feedback System

Send message to Admin if fail to login to admincp 2.0.0 Send message to Admin if fail to login to admincp

SEOforums.org Fuzzy SEO Booster RC2 1.3.2 SEOforums.org Fuzzy SEO Booster RC2

SEOforums.org SEO Link Replacement 1.2 Replaces words in posts to be a link to the destination of your choice! Handy for affiliate links and SEO friendly ones!

SFS Integration 1.0.0 Integrates the SFS database into the registration functions of vBulletin.

Spiders in WGO 1.0 Show Spiders In Whats Going On Box

vBadvanced CMPS 4.0.0 RC1 vBadvanced Content Management & Portal System

vBH - Add new tabs 1.2 1.2 This plugin adds new tabs to the main navbar

vBulletin Blog 4.0.3 Personal web log, integrated with vBulletin.

vBulletin CMS 4.0.3 Content Management System

VSa - Advanced Registration 2.0.1 VSa - Advanced Registration

VSa - ChatBox 3.1.6 VSa - ChatBox

VSa - Forums Online CountUp 2.0 VSa - Forums Online CountUp

[mobe00]

what is the link i need to use for the rss feed ????

[Webbstre]

I've just installed the newest version out at the moment (great work btw, I look forward to seeing this improve). I can't seem to submit anything. I'm testing it by putting a simple link to a .jpg image on my site, but no matter what I do I get "Could not parse media URL."

[mobe00]

when i try to add the rss feed adress http://www.xxxxxxxxxxx.xx/media.php?do=rss to feedburner i get an error messages. So something is wrong with the RSS feed.

Sorry

This feed does not validate.

*

line 27, column 110: XML parsing error: <unknown>:29:110: not well-formed (invalid token) [help]

... 76a129771397318305b1&amp;do=category&cid=4">- Humor</category>
^

line 27 looks like

# <category domain="http://www.xxxxxxxx.xx/media.php?do=category&cid=6">- Humor</category>

[your24hourstore]

Originally Posted by mobe00

when i try to add the rss feed adress http://www.xxxxxxxxxxx.xx/media.php?do=rss to feedburner i get an error messages. So something is wrong with the RSS feed.

Sorry

This feed does not validate.

*

line 27, column 110: XML parsing error: <unknown>:29:110: not well-formed (invalid token) [help]

... 76a129771397318305b1&amp;do=category&cid=4">- Humor</category>
^

line 27 looks like

# <category domain="http://www.xxxxxxxx.xx/media.php?do=category&cid=6">- Humor</category>

I didnt even know it did RSS, install over it, didnt work for me but LOL you have more working than i do

I do have it showing up in my site rss

[cindy helmond]

great mod !! but can you change the url when its opening create an thread ? now its opening in an new window can you change it in _self window ?
thx !!

[mobe00]

Originally Posted by harleyparts

I didnt even know it did RSS, install over it, didnt work for me but LOL you have more working than i do

I do have it showing up in my site rss

You use the auto thread create , thats why you see it. the rss link you posted is the standard vbulletin rss link. its an own rss feed for media library only

[Delilahs]

The Media rss doesn't work on my site either,

21: <pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 06:22:53 GMT</pubDate>
22: <comments><![CDATA[http://www.delilahsforum.co.uk/forum/media.php?do=details&mid=3#comments]]></comments>
23: <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://www.delilahsforum.co.uk/forum/media.php?do=details&mid=3]]></guid>
24: <category domain="http://www.delilahsforum.co.uk/forum/media.php?do=category&cid=1">- General Media</category>
25: <category domain="http://www.delilahsforum.co.uk/forum/media.php?do=user&uid=4">+ Wily Boos Knees</category>
26: <category domain="http://www.delilahsforum.co.uk/forum/media.php?do=tag&tid=chealseagirl">chealseagirl</category>
27: <category domain="http://www.delilahsforum.co.uk/forum/media.php?do=tag&tid=modettes">modettes</category>