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;
}

[your24hourstore]

Originally Posted by Webbstre

Unfortunately, I've looked through all of those and they all fail somewhere. I like the design and organization of this mod, I just need a way to include images and videos that are locally hosted.

im sure he can fix you up, they do custom jobs for peeps here.

[Juggernaut]

I love this mod

[TimberFloorAu]

I voted it for MOTM.

Just two niggles tho:
The thread submission portion, doesnt register the new thread as a thread in forumhome view.

We need to see who "has watched a video" or current users on this part of the forum.

[Juggernaut]

Only problem I have is the spanish special characters are not showing in the comments section
Nominated for MOTM

[Jaxel]

RSS errors will be fixed with the new version... this entire mod will soon be 100% XHTML valdiated!

Originally Posted by TimberFloorAu

The thread submission portion, doesnt register the new thread as a thread in forumhome view.

Fixed in 4.0.4

[Webbstre]

Originally Posted by harleyparts

im sure he can fix you up, they do custom jobs for peeps here.

That would be awesome, and to be honest I am surprised these options haven't appeared so far. If the author offered a Pro version for sale that included options to upload images and videos (or incorporated images/videos uploaded via ftp) I would buy it. This is the last part of my site that I need to replace before I can switch over from Wordpress

Jaxel: If you include these options in a future version you will definitely either get a purchase or a donation from me as soon as my next batch of ad money comes in.

[Arved Yagami]

Originally Posted by Jaxel

I dont quite understand what you are asking. You can change the description when you add the video. You can also click the "edit media" button on the top right of a media's details page... this link will only show up if you have the appropriate permissions, or the media belongs to you.

What I tried to say is that I can't edit the media description. When I click submit or save all I get is the original description again, even if i changed it.

My other question is how to use latin chars in the comments?

[rotor]

Originally Posted by Arved Yagami

What I tried to say is that I can't edit the media description. When I click submit or save all I get is the original description again, even if i changed it.

This also happens on both my sites ..... but it does save into a different directory if I choose that option, and saves any changes in the Title - it's just the comments don't change on edit

[Jaxel]

Originally Posted by Webbstre

That would be awesome, and to be honest I am surprised these options haven't appeared so far. If the author offered a Pro version for sale that included options to upload images and videos (or incorporated images/videos uploaded via ftp) I would buy it. This is the last part of my site that I need to replace before I can switch over from Wordpress

Jaxel: If you include these options in a future version you will definitely either get a purchase or a donation from me as soon as my next batch of ad money comes in.

Uploaded via FTP coming in next version. Videos should be uploaded by FTP to customVID directory (default). Then you submit the video to the library using the syntax "internal:videolocation". So if a video is located at customVID/video.mp4, you type in "internal:video.mp4". If a video is located at customVID/folder3/video7.flv (dont forget to CHMOD 777 folder3), you type in "internal:folder3/video7.flv". Of course, since there is no XML or video data, that means the system can't extract a thumbnail, title, description, timecode or tags. It will auto generate a title and description based on the filename, and will give a default thumbnail, but the rest will have to be inputted manually. A nice donation would be appreciated...

Originally Posted by rotor

This also happens on both my sites ..... but it does save into a different directory if I choose that option, and saves any changes in the Title - it's just the comments don't change on edit

Fixed for next version...

[Webbstre]

Originally Posted by Jaxel

Uploaded via FTP coming in next version. Videos should be uploaded by FTP to customVID/0 directory (default). Then you submit the video to the library using the syntax "internal:videolocation". So if a video is located at customVID/0/video.mp4, you type in "internal:video.mp4". If a video is located at customVID/0/folder3/video7.flv (dont forget to CHMOD 777 folder3), you type in "internal:folder3/video7.flv". Of course, since there is no XML or video data, that means the system can't extract a thumbnail, title, description, timecode or tags. It will auto generate a title and description based on the filename, and will give a default thumbnail, but the rest will have to be inputted manually. A nice donation would be appreciated...

Example: http://test.8wayrun.com/media.php?do=details&mid=1493

Thank you! Any hope for image files to be incorporated as well?