New Posting Features - VB AnyMedia Player / Media Sites (youtube, google and many more)

Goldbrick Media system for vBulletin 3.6.x

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/
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• 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

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


Planned Features:

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


Please report any issues or suggestions.

[christian8a]

Ops I forgot the install bud, sorry. Ok so I did upload and import. but now the flv player that was before is gone right? or did I do something wrong?

Here are 2 links where theres still some vids that has the flv player and some others were replaced for the new vers

http://www.myls1.com/forums/showthread.php?t=463

And one replaced that had the same flv player chosen for metacafe videos both by the way.

http://www.myls1.com/forums/showthread.php?t=319

[nix]

Its still there but most sites block the player from streaming the video unless they have an api. So i just took that option out. Didn't know it worked on some of them still.

Not sure why that link not working. I'll look into it.

[christian8a]

Is it normal that now the activate this control" box comes up?

[nix]

Thats an IE thing.

[halcyoncmdr]

Hey Nix, I mentioned this earlier but I thin kit got lost in the shuffle at the end of the page

I am curious if it is possible to have the download link option be user-selectable as well. For example there would be an AdminCP option for global download links, and then it could be disabled for each individual media embed if you wanted. Just an idea I had suddenly

[nix]

I'm sure its possible. I'll look into it for 3.1

[RedGTiVR6]

I know this might be very difficult to implement, but it's worth a shot.

On our forum we have a number of attachment types allowed. One of which is .pdf.

I love the way this mod handles showing .pdfs to people, but I don't want it to handle every other attachment we have,

Would it be possible to pull the list of allowed attachments and make it into a list in this mod where you can select which types of attachments you want the media player to handle?

Thanks for all of your hard work btw!

[nix]

Yea I should be able to do that. I'll add it on the list for 3.1

[christian8a]

Ok got everything to work Fine I guess, Nice feature :up:

One more question though... to use it on vbadvanced CMP what do I have to add on the templates, any toughts

[nix]

The only thing you might have to do is edit the anymedia template to match your forum path. But most of the features should work with Vbadvnaced. I have it working on a test install with no changes needed.