Major Additions - Goldbrick Audio/Video Media System

Goldbrick Media system for vBulletin 3.7

Thanks to all who nominated or voted this for MOTM.

Some of you might be looking for Anymedia. Well this has replaced it. It's a total rewrite from the ground up. A huge thanks goes to Sir Adrian for creating the framework. He can't cook soup but he sure can code.

Why the name goldbrck?

From Wikipedia:

Goldbricking, in today's terms, generally refers to staff who use their work internet access for personal reasons while maintaining the appearance of working.

From Urban Dictionary:

Goldbricking: To loaf or goof around on the job. Supposedly an old union term describing laborers (or more specifically, bricklayers) who were going so slow, it was as if each brick were made of solid gold. One can alse be referred to as a "goldbricker".

Dude, I spent all day at work goldbricking - surfing the web, making long distance phone calls - basically just picking my ass.

Goldbrick uses the following third party Products:

• Highslide Javascript. I've packaged it with the 3.1 download. Please read the license agreement on highlide's website. In short it's free for non-commercial use. http://vikjavev.no/highslide/
• - - -
• The media player and mp3 player are from http://www.jeroenwijering.com/

What's new in Goldbrick?

• Complete code overhaul.
• Plays most media types.
• Forum admins can add their own video sites
• Updated Highslide.js
• Attachment Images work with Goldbrick
• Don't need to use BBCODE
• Auto Phrases URL's
• Media Options per post
• Much more on the way!

Goldbrick's Requirements:

• Vbulletin :P
• PHP 5

Planned Features:

- Youtube like interface
- Video Comments
- Media Tags
- Media Searching

Install Instructions:

1. Upload file contents in the upload folder.
2. Import the Product.xml

Goldbrick Version 1.5:
- Fixed Vbadvanced integration
- Fixed extensions permissions checking
- Added pickup of old [media] tags
- More code changes for later features

Goldbrick Version 1.4:
- Fixed Apple trailers
- Added Added Viemo videos
- More code changes for later features

Goldbrick Version 1.3:
- Fixed Images
- Fixed MP3's
- Fixed Myspace, now supports myspacetv.com
- Added Increase or decrease video size for the classic player (testebr gets the credit for this one)
- Added Added ESPN videos
- Added Veoh video site.

Goldbrick Version 1.2:
- Added Videos for Profiles for vbulletin 3.7
- Added Classic Skin
- Added Vblog Support
- Added Vbadvanced Support
- Fixed Attachments
- Rewrote some of the code


Supported Video Sites: 19 so far. Looking in goldbrick/sites folder for a full list. Users can create their own. I'll post a HOW-TO with the details.



Please report any issues or suggestions.

[fladay]

Please show me the demo of dailymotion. Thanks! If you don't mind please do example for each video site that it can support.

[ptwiggens]

When I try to go to someone's profile I am getting this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /home/spacehog/public_html/blacklabelseduction/forum/goldbrick/includes/class_goldbrick.php on line 15

[maidos]

please replymy msg about playing mp4 avi and mkv files???

[Tralala]

Originally Posted by nix

That is from the javascript not being picked up. Make sure you see the highslide and swfobject js files being included in the page. If not you'll see that error.

Thanks for the reply, nix! I'm enjoying this mod and appreciate your work very much.

In reviewing my notes (from our IM chat last year,) I see I added the following lines into the headinclude template:

<script type="text/javascript" src="goldbrick/style/highslide.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="goldbrick/style/swfobject.js"></script>

The javascript must be included, because the mod (and highslide effects) are working, for the most part.



I think I am thisclose to getting this working perfectly on my site. There are just a few visual glitches and site incompatibilities, listed below:

- I am testing in Safari on a Mac. The videos load and play fine. They don't seem to work for me in Firefox, however.

- The "You need to upgrade your Flash Player" message appears for some, but not all, videos. It disappears when I click the video's name and the highslided window pops up. Again, though, it only disappears for some, and not all videos.

- I've tested a few sites. YouTube and Viddler work fine. JumpCut does not... when clicked, a highslided window opens but a the window remains blank and nothing plays.

-YouTube videos get a thumbnail. Jumpcut, Viddler, AppleTrailers and more don't, but get a nice "M" logo. (That's fine.) But Google Video gets a "broken image" thumbnail, which I would love to fix.



-QuickTime Trailer videos appear outside of their box, and float above any highslided videos I move near it. See below:





FWIW, I previously had highslide.js installed for attachment images, as well as an [imgh] BBcode. The highslide included with Goldbrick has replaced that, and I'm pretty sure I've pointed all references from the old highslide folder to the new one with Goldbrick. The highslide effect seems to still be working everywhere so I think I'm good on that front.


Anyway... happy to try anything you suggest. Also happy to create an admin and/or user account on my small (private) forum so you could check it out yourself. I'm really eager to transition from AnyMedia and AME and use GoldBrick exclusively... it's a really slick add-on and I know my users will love it!

[nix]

send me a pm with the info.

[FENIX]

Originally Posted by nix

its not needed anymore. Now you just post a link and Goldbrick does the rest.

Ahh nice one

[maidos]

please replymy 2 msgs about playing mp4 avi and mkv files???

[frosch68]

great hack...

i am searching for the integration of the two german sites clipfish.de and myvideo.de.

Can someone help me ??

Tanks a lot

[jGas]

i dont' know why, but in the last hour goldbrick for youtube stopped workin...but i haven't edited the configuration!

have you got the same problem?

[maidos]

<a href="http://www.imoovee.com/tv/kxvrq/qqrrvz-A.html" target="_blank">http://www.imoovee.com/tv/kxvrq/qqrrvz-A.html</a>

can u make this support