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;
}

[BorisPeace]

Hello guys,

Ever since I removed this (from the products menu), I'm getting db error emails and also when opening an article from the CMS page, it says there's a db error and opens only when you refresh it. I don't know if those are connected, but both problems started at the same moment (the moment I removed 8WR). Here is the db error emails:

Database error in vBulletin 4.1.5:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT languageid,
phrasegroup_global AS phrasegroup_global,
phrasegroup_8WR_media AS phrasegroup_8WR_media,
phrasegroup_posting AS phrasegroup_posting,
phrasegroupinfo AS lang_phrasegroupinfo,
options AS lang_options,
languagecode AS lang_code,
charset AS lang_charset,
locale AS lang_locale,
imagesoverride AS lang_imagesoverride,
dateoverride AS lang_dateoverride,
timeoverride AS lang_timeoverride,
registereddateoverride AS lang_registereddateoverride,
calformat1override AS lang_calformat1override,
calformat2override AS lang_calformat2override,
logdateoverride AS lang_logdateoverride,
decimalsep AS lang_decimalsep,
thousandsep AS lang_thousandsep
FROM language
WHERE languageid = 2;

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'phrasegroup_8WR_media' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Request Date : Sunday, September 11th 2011 @ 01:14:07 PM
Error Date : Sunday, September 11th 2011 @ 01:14:07 PM
Script : http://www.gamehonor.com/media.php?do=tag&tid=sniper&langid=8
Referrer : 
IP Address : 66.249.71.105
Username : 
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

The second one:

Database error in vBulletin 4.1.5:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT media.*, media_service.*
FROM media AS media
LEFT JOIN media_service AS media_service ON(media_service.serviceID = media.serviceID)
ORDER BY media.dateline DESC
LIMIT 5;

MySQL Error : Table 'boris_db1.media' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146
Request Date : Sunday, September 11th 2011 @ 01:32:08 PM
Error Date : Sunday, September 11th 2011 @ 01:32:08 PM
Script : http://www.gamehonor.com/content.php/372-820(EHOME)-dotayı-bırakt-ı!!!
Referrer : 
IP Address : 66.249.71.105
Username : Ziyaretci
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

[Littlerocket]

Still can't get to the bottom of my 403 Forbidden problem when clicking Submit Media. Have done a clean VB install with no mods. A clean 1.7 install. Set all the permissions as per instructions. Have contacted my host who has checked the logs and hasn't found any errors of permission denials server side.

Help would be greatly appreciated. www.tapgo.co.uk

Thanks.

[misericorde]

Originally Posted by STORMS

How do you edit the background colors and colors overall to the Media Library? What template do you go in to?

Style :
Album - albumlist_blockbody - background

You can choose your color.

Bye

[Juggernaut]

Originally Posted by Littlerocket

Still can't get to the bottom of my 403 Forbidden problem when clicking Submit Media. Have done a clean VB install with no mods. A clean 1.7 install. Set all the permissions as per instructions. Have contacted my host who has checked the logs and hasn't found any errors of permission denials server side.

Help would be greatly appreciated. www.tapgo.co.uk

Thanks.

I've searched throughout this thread, this post might be able to help you, I am out of ideas, also did you upload or make the changes to your .htaccess file? are you using the seo url's? Here's the post I mentioned that might help you.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=940

[Littlerocket]

Originally Posted by Juggernaut

I've searched throughout this thread, this post might be able to help you, I am out of ideas, also did you upload or make the changes to your .htaccess file? are you using the seo url's? Here's the post I mentioned that might help you.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=940

Hi mate. I've made those changes to no avail. Still get forbidden message, although after adding the .htaccess I get a 500 error instead of a 404. Don't have SEO urls set.

Cheers for taking the time.

www.tapgo.co.uk

[Littlerocket]

Originally Posted by Juggernaut

I've searched throughout this thread, this post might be able to help you, I am out of ideas, also did you upload or make the changes to your .htaccess file? are you using the seo url's? Here's the post I mentioned that might help you.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=940

Lo Jugg, just wanted to let you know that I resolved the media.php permission problem. It turned out to be some security rules with my host. Thanks a lot for your help over the past few days.

Now, my mission is to get JW player videos working

Thanks again.

[Littlerocket]

It is possible to include .flv files in the library?

[K4GAP]

Originally Posted by reversedesigns

hmm some how i am getting the error now to
The description you have entered is too short (0 characters). Please lengthen your description to at least 10 characters

how can this be fixed ?

By changing that setting in the control panel.

[Littlerocket]

Does anyone know if it's feasible to be able to embed these video files in the library?

http://www.ea.com/uk/football/videos/ugc/74820084

It's an flv. In theory would it be possible to write an XML file to add them?

Cheers for any help. Despite the creator not supporting the mod anymore, it is very cool that people are prepared to help.

[Littlerocket]

Just wanted to post to say this mod does work in 4.1.5 with the edits found within this thread. Thanks to all the people who've posted the fixes.

The only thing I have an issue with on 4.1.5 is that tags aren't imported when info is retrieved.