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;
}

[milaszewski]

Originally Posted by harleyparts

yup yup all is good
must be a misconfiguration in your setup somewhere

which version do you have? 0.9 or 1.0?
In my case it is 1.0
Everything else is working fine, just "Browse All Media" is wrong.

[Jaxel]

Originally Posted by milaszewski

at least 3 people have that problem
could it be related to mod rewrite friendly urls?

No, its from me forgetting to put in a check for people who use TABLE_PREFIX.

[Ahmet Turan]

How do I change the name of media

How do I share This video for facebook

Thanx

[Footman]

Originally Posted by Footman

Ok... I'm stumped here. Everything was working perfectly the other day. Nothing new or added on my site. Except for some posts on threads. No new mods or even upgrades of existing mods. Today I go to the media section and click on one of my YouTube thumbs and the video is no longer showing. Not even the video player and the info box is now nearly full screen as you can see in the attachment. It's slightly indented from the left though which is interesting. I tried clicking the Click here to restore all services in the "/media/xml" directory to their default settings link again but this doesn't help.

Again, it was working the other day perfectly fine and now it's not. I thought it might have something to do with the embed feature being disabled by YouTube, as they do that with some vids. But I checked another vB4 board I've psted the same vid on and it's still working there. Also, when that happens I still see the player but with a pop up message saying embed has been disabled when I click the play button.

Well for some reason it's working now. I get the player and am able to play the linked video from YouTube. I haven't done a thing with the site since my last post, so this is still a mystery to me... but at least it's working today

[puertoblack2003]

Originally Posted by Footman

Well for some reason it's working now. I get the player and am able to play the linked video from YouTube. I haven't done a thing with the site since my last post, so this is still a mystery to me... but at least it's working today

yea i had the same issue when my members upload a new video and they'll take that link form youtube to our board.but 1/2 hours later it'll work it's not this mod it's youtube

[Footman]

Originally Posted by puertoblack2003

yea i had the same issue when my members upload a new video and they'll take that link form youtube to our board.but 1/2 hours later it'll work it's not this mod it's youtube

I thought it might be YouTube as well since at times they block the embedding of certain videos. But that results in still seeing the player and a notice that embedding has been disabled by YouTube. Also, I checked the same video on another vB4 board I posted to and it was working fine. Lastly, the player didn't load at all during this period of "not working" and the description panel to the right of the player was almost full screen, which may be the way it's written.

[Jaxel]

Originally Posted by Footman

I thought it might be YouTube as well since at times they block the embedding of certain videos. But that results in still seeing the player and a notice that embedding has been disabled by YouTube. Also, I checked the same video on another vB4 board I posted to and it was working fine. Lastly, the player didn't load at all during this period of "not working" and the description panel to the right of the player was almost full screen, which may be the way it's written.

Sounds like a cache problem.

[drsmash]

can i add widget for the liberary in the forum widgets and can i put more widget in the liberary ?

if i can please i want to know how?

[Footman]

Originally Posted by Jaxel

Sounds like a cache problem.

I thought that as well Jaxel. I tried cleaning the browser cache but it still wasn't working. It's the weirdest thing. Then when I went to check today it was fine. It work for a time, then went screwy then back to working again.

[COL NIL SATIS]

Originally Posted by dbigras

It would be AMAZING if the Video sideblock was also a video player, not just a clickable image.

That would indeed be amazing