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;
}

[bjarneg]

Hi,-

I'm verry happy with this mod,- but there are only one thing missing,- and that is the option,- to let users upload there own video to the library.

Is it possible, at someone can help with a solution on this?


:up:

[Reef Man]

Hi, I installed it on a 4.1.10vb, and all the links on the administrative are not working. I can not see where are the videos on my server and every time I upload a video, when I submit it, I got a 404 error page, but I got the video uploaded.

any help much appreciated.

[Sworm]

Hi, should be possible to create a page to show only the thumbs scaled automatically from a thread [img] attachment with the title only?

I have need only to do something like this:
http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/7168/catturajd.jpg

in a xxxx.php page+thumbnail+thread title..... the list should be based on the last forum threads..... for example, a user open a new thread, attach a [img] image and in the media list will appair automatically the thread image thumb the link the full thread.....is it possible with this hack?
Thanks and great job, really!

[maherl]

Originally Posted by waldvb

Can you post link to your site ? I'd like to see how it works.
I'm looking for media library for VB 4.1.10. I'm not decided - free 8wayrun or paid vbtube. 8wayrun got better layouts and functionality on the sidebar - categories, tags , contributors, statistics. Looks better than vtube. But you got support from VBtube.

No trouble at all: http://www.superstox.co.uk/media.php?

Hope this helps.

[K4GAP]

Originally Posted by maherl

No trouble at all: http://www.superstox.co.uk/media.php?

Hope this helps.

Nice looking site maherl.

[sadiq6210]

Originally Posted by sadiq6210

How can I add same video tewice in two sections??

I got this error

Our records show that this particular media is already in the media library!

One year I am trying to know this in 8WayRun Media library
Any coder can help?

[maherl]

Originally Posted by sadiq6210

One year I am trying to know this in 8WayRun Media library
Any coder can help?

Just an idea, are you able to copy the video locally and upload the Local-MP4 XML template (in Administrate | Services) to access? I know this is not what you are trying to achieve, but it might be feasible to do it this way until someone comes up with a solution?

[Rushyman]

Anyone have issues with the user profile pages all being messed up? For some reason some of the CSS doesn't load in and the page is all over the place.

Everything else on the board and the Media section is fine, it's just the user profile pages.

[maherl]

I would like to know if anyone agrees with me that the quality of the thumbnails generated by downloading from You Tube is not as good as it could be.

Has anyone looked into the coding at all to figure out if this aspect can be improved? AS they do look even grainier than You Tubes offering. Are they being further processed again by this software?

Visually, its the only thing that lets this piece of software down in my opinion.

[Jpolola]

Thank you..Really Appreciated this Mod