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;
}

[katie hunter]

I like it but it seems Jaxel stopped supporting it and moved to update his version only for Xenforo.

http://8wayrun.com/media/combo-videos.3/category

I don't see a pro version for VB, i would buy it if it has a pro version and development kept going. It does have potentials to becoming something big.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by katie hunter

I like it but it seems Jaxel stopped supporting it and moved to update his version only for Xenforo.

http://8wayrun.com/media/combo-videos.3/category

I don't see a pro version for VB, i would buy it if it has a pro version and development kept going. It does have potentials to becoming something big.

Yes, Jaxel announced awhile back that he was no longer developing for vB. All his add-ons are still here, but basically all we can do is tweak what we got.

[Wajow-community]

update to vb 4.2.1

[tbworld]

My daughter is using this on v4.2.1. Follow all the patches in the thread and you might have to do a bit of work on the menu.

[Wajow-community]

Originally Posted by tbworld

My daughter is using this on v4.2.1. Follow all the patches in the thread and you might have to do a bit of work on the menu.

For example, I upload film in my ftp and post the link in the video media that members can view this Online? Without youtube etc..

[tbworld]

You have to play around with this modification to understand how it works. Give it a couple hours then ask a specific question and I would be happy to answer it.

When you post a question, you will need to provide more data. I understand English is not your native language, you will need to reiterate what you are saying a couple of times in a post to make sure your question is understood.

Without youtube etc..

I have no idea what this means? Sorry.

[Wajow-community]

Originally Posted by tbworld

You have to play around with this modification to understand how it works. Give it a couple hours then ask a specific question and I would be happy to answer it.

When you post a question, you will need to provide more data. I understand English is not your native language, you will need to reiterate what you are saying a couple of times in a post to make sure your question is understood.



I have no idea what this means? Sorry.

haha i know my english is not so good.

But what I wonder is therefore the following: I do not mind this but I do not want to download youtube, daylimotion etc.. use. What I actually do is upload a movie to my ftp and link address this and this places these media module that also exhibits the film. As this example: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ghlight=stream


Witch i must download i use 4.2.1?

[tbworld]

Originally Posted by Wajow-community

haha i know my english is not so good.

But what I wonder is therefore the following: I do not mind this but I do not want to download youtube, daylimotion etc.. use. What I actually do is upload a movie to my ftp and link address this and this places these media module that also exhibits the film. As this example: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ghlight=stream

That is possible and does work. It is just difficult to find in the documentation, but it is in there. When I have a chance I will try to find a reference to it.

Witch i must download i use 4.2.1?

Not sure what you are asking here?

[goc-forum.de]

I am using vB4.2.0 and at all styles it looks like this:


How can i correct it?

[tbworld]

Pass me a link to this page on your site. I will take a look at the issue.