Major Additions - Links and Downloads Manager

Version 2.3.0 of LDM is now the official release. This works with both VB3.7 and VB3.8. You can obtain it here

Version 2.2.8 remains available here, with limited support.

04.02.08: patch-cat.xml 'extra' uploaded - see first post for information

27.10.07: Version 2.2.8-post1 uploaded
French translation of product installer uploaded (other language translations are in the main release zip)

Remember to back up your current database tables before upgrading.

What this is and does

LDM is a general-purpose link and file manager, which handles user uploads and downloads in a flexible way. A range of media players is integrated into LDM and others are included as plugin extras. LDM is described below in the first post of this thread, which also contains a brief list of the currently-known bugs.

This release of LDM works correctly with all VB versions 3.6.x and recent versions of vbadvanced.

Documentation, screen shots, etc, are provided as a Wiki at http://www.eirma.org/wikis/index.php...nloads_Manager

Thank you to everyone who has tested, given suggestions, helped with the translations, etc.

[butty]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Yes, my difficulty is that I don't know exactly what changes you've made. The standard vb release opens a correctly sized jukebox window with none of the extra material you've added.

the changes i made were to the local_links.php page so that it adds the vbadvanced navigation menu to the left of the page. this is what i did:

basically i have my vbadvanced set so that it shows my left vbadvanced column to the left of the ldm. i have done this by adding this to the top of local_links.php as instructed by vbadvanced

<?php
define('VBA_PORTAL', true);
define('VBA_PAGE', 'tunearchive');

it is because it is opening the page with the navigation menu to the left on still on the popup media player box that is causing the problems. is there anyways that the popupplayer can be not called from that local_links.php page at all as thats what is causing the problems

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by butty

the changes i made were to the local_links.php page so that it adds the vbadvanced navigation menu to the left of the page. this is what i did:



it is because it is opening the page with the navigation menu to the left on still on the popup media player box that is causing the problems. is there anyways that the popupplayer can be not called from that local_links.php page at all as thats what is causing the problems

Try the following:

<?php
if ($_GET['action']=="" or $_GET['action']=="links")) {
   define('VBA_PORTAL', true);
   define('VBA_PAGE', 'tunearchive'); 
}

[butty]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Try the following:

<?php
if ($_GET['action']=="" or $_GET['action']=="links")) {
   define('VBA_PORTAL', true);
   define('VBA_PAGE', 'tunearchive'); 
}

i do believe i want to have your babies!

lol

top man. respect for ya help its not bringing up the rest of the page now when its opening the pop up box.

can you think of a easy way to get the popup media box to stay on top all the time? as when you load up a song. then click back on the page and play another it disapears to the back of that page if u get me. i can live with that though if it isnt something simple ya could point out. you have done enough work for one day go n put ya feet up

[Ophelia]

Hi Andrew.. tis me again.

How would it be possible for those who are downloading to figure out the full path of a download via the download manager.

We noticed that files that are hidden and scheduled for a later date were being downloaded. Not mass, just 2 or 3 hits. I took a look and it's the same 2 individuals doing the download.

How are they doing this, but still triggering hits on the files via the download manager? If they know the direct path and are just changing the date of the download (example file one is 010107.zip and the second one is 010207.zip) then it wouldn't logically show up in the download manager as they are going directly to the file and totally bypassing the download manager.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Ophelia

Hi Andrew.. tis me again.

How would it be possible for those who are downloading to figure out the full path of a download via the download manager.

We noticed that files that are hidden and scheduled for a later date were being downloaded. Not mass, just 2 or 3 hits. I took a look and it's the same 2 individuals doing the download.

How are they doing this, but still triggering hits on the files via the download manager? If they know the direct path and are just changing the date of the download (example file one is 010107.zip and the second one is 010207.zip) then it wouldn't logically show up in the download manager as they are going directly to the file and totally bypassing the download manager.

If the problem is as described in my PM to you, then it is fixed in the forthcoming 2.2.7.

[rolandogomez]

What would be cool if we could take uploaded video files and incorporate transcoding on the downloads into flash like YouTube, some great articles out there, http://blog.go4teams.com/?p=56 and http://willy.boerland.com/myblog/you...ur_drupal_site (drupal) with other software doing this. It would save a bunch on bandwidth. Here is a great wiki entry, http://videotranscoding.wikispaces.com/

I've installed your program which I think rocks, but I'd consider paying someone to modify it so videos can be converted on the down load like Youtube and where we can use the Amazon.com S3 for storage and bandwidth, very inexpensive.

Edit--I have found a great encoder for under $40 that will encode just about any video or audio file into .flv format like YouTube. I actually took a 299MB video and encoded it to 1.2MB flash file, works beautiful in a flash player with the encoder from http://www.on2.com/ You can also download 30-day trial versions for free at http://www.on2.com/downloads/flix-demo-software/ for windows and mac.

I then added the mime type of flv Content-type: application/x-shockwave-flash to VB attachments parameters and it would not do anything, when I changed it to Content-type: video/x-shockwave-flash it allowed me to download the file on my desktop. However your player would not launch it. Anyone? I would love to be able to use LDM where members could take practically any video or audio type, transcode it on the upload and then when downloaded it would play via flash like YouTube. With on2 they also sell over 130 skins for the players for under $30. Any ideas how LDM could go one step further? Thanks, rg.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by rolandogomez

What would be cool if we could take uploaded video files and incorporate transcoding on the downloads into flash like YouTube, some great articles out there, http://blog.go4teams.com/?p=56 and http://willy.boerland.com/myblog/you...ur_drupal_site (drupal) with other software doing this. It would save a bunch on bandwidth. Here is a great wiki entry, http://videotranscoding.wikispaces.com/

I've installed your program which I think rocks, but I'd consider paying someone to modify it so videos can be converted on the down load like Youtube and where we can use the Amazon.com S3 for storage and bandwidth, very inexpensive.

Edit--I have found a great encoder for under $40 that will encode just about any video or audio file into .flv format like YouTube. I actually took a 299MB video and encoded it to 1.2MB flash file, works beautiful in a flash player with the encoder from http://www.on2.com/ You can also download 30-day trial versions for free at http://www.on2.com/downloads/flix-demo-software/ for windows and mac.

I then added the mime type of flv Content-type: application/x-shockwave-flash to VB attachments parameters and it would not do anything, when I changed it to Content-type: video/x-shockwave-flash it allowed me to download the file on my desktop. However your player would not launch it. Anyone? I would love to be able to use LDM where members could take practically any video or audio type, transcode it on the upload and then when downloaded it would play via flash like YouTube. With on2 they also sell over 130 skins for the players for under $30. Any ideas how LDM could go one step further? Thanks, rg.

The flash player will be integrated in version 2.2.7. There is already a 'Wimpy addon' in 2.2.6.

I'd spotted on2.

Ideally, this is going to need server-side transcoding, and java-based uploading. Otherwise, it will be an excellent tool for the site administrator. Let's think about options.

[rolandogomez]

Andrew, I'm open for ideas, wish I was a coder and I'd help you the best I could. I'm more of a visionary (grin). I'll check "Wimpy" but I love the idea we could have a VB "YouTube" capability without being a "YouTube" clone that are out there.

If you need server testing, let me know, I have that site which you are now familiar with that we can play with. Thanks, rg.

[|oR|Greg]

I used the free FLVPLAYER.swf to play my FLV's inline, the problem of course is the transcoding. Users just want to upload stuff and be done, they don't care, and don't want to bother with saving the site space, or re-encoding their files. For my uploads I used the Riva encoder for mine.

This site does the online conversion, and you DL the output, it would be excellent to get a hold of the technololgy they're using http://media-convert.com/

[|oR|Greg]

This is also a great read. In the beginning it states that those with shared hosting need not bother because the transcoding is too cpu intensive.

http://gallery.menalto.com/node/41056