Major Additions - Video-Directory

Video-Directory - developed by vBPoint.org

What is this?

This add on gives your users the possibility to collect their favourite videos from some video-webpages (supported at the moment: MyVideo, YouTube, Sevenload and Metacafe) and to provide them in the forum. The videos can be commented and rated.

The Administrator has many possibilities of settings and can create video-categories and administrate the video-directory.

List of features:

• Completely integrated in vBulletin
• Many possibility of settings for the Administrator
  • Many possibilities of settings
  • permissions of usergroups
  • Administration of categories
  • Administration of video-webpages
    • Incl. import and export
• Very simple installation
• Homepage can be configured easily
• Videos are integrated in the forum
  • Videos can be voted with AJAX
  • Commets to videos can be posted
  • Videos can be reported
  • User can see other members watching the video at the same time
• Simple search-function
• RSS-Feed of videos
• Advanced WOL-integration
• Advanced vBSEO-integration

Installation:

1. Upload all files from the directory "root" (Keep the structure of folders)
2. The directory of videothumbnails and includes/videoserviceapi needs 777 permissions
3. Import the product-videodirectory.xml from the admin-controllpanel
4. After importing the product DON'T close the window, follow the installiton instructions!

History:

• 1.0.0 RC 1 - First release
• 1.0.0 RC 2 - Improvements and correcting some errors - many thanks to Hapi for reworking the templates!
• 1.0.0 RC 3 - Correting some bugs: 38409, 38496, 38548, 38611
• 1.1.0 Beta 1 - "Major Release"
  • Correcting some bugs
  • New: Search function
  • New: Reporting funvtion for videos
  • New: Import/export funtion for Video-Webpages
  • New: Improvements for guests
  • New: Best voted videos on Mainpage
  • New: vBSEO-Integration
  • New: Simplified installation
• 1.1.0 Beta 2 - Small Bugfix-Release
• 1.1.0 RC 1 - New Feature (Members who are watching the same video at video details page), Bugfixes (Missing File for comments added, vBSEO CRR fixed)
• 1.1.0 RC 2 - Added two new videohosters (sevenload and metacafe), added rss feed, added thumbnail-preview when adding a video, MyVideo Class optimized, some bugs fixed

Roadmap for Version 1.2.0:

• Tag-function for videos
• Favourite Videos (AJAX)
• Watchlist (AJAX)
• [s]User watching the same video at the moment[/s] - Added in Version 1.1.0 RC 1
• Video-comments per AJAX, to avoid reload
• "Video-Profile" for user
• Moderation
• [S]New Videos in forumhome[/S] (See addons)
• [s]RSS-Feed for Videos[/s] - Added in Version 1.1.0 RC 2
• Integration in statistic-block in profile

Developer notes:

Do you want to enhance the video-directory, but some hooks are missing? Do you want to enhance the templates and you need some template-hooks? No Problem! Send a PM and the hooks will be integrated in the next version!

Developer-Blog:

Feel free to check out our Developer-Blog at vBPoint.org!

[ArnyVee]

Originally Posted by Jaxel

I recommend the following settings for your limits...
5 - 15 - 2 - 5 - 0 - 0 - 5 - 20 - 5

Is this necessary or simply to mirror what you have on your setup?

Originally Posted by Jaxel

When you re-install the Video-Directory, it also does not re-install your videohoster XML files. Simple, this means you need to re-import the two YouTube XML files I have included in the zip. Just import them and it will automatically overwrite your old YouTube XML files.

This just means that I have to upload via FTP and overwrite the previous ones, right?

Originally Posted by Jaxel

You may need to update/revert your existing templates to get my new template edits.

How do I do this?

Originally Posted by Jaxel

Added support for a basic "sub-category" system. Its not actually sub categories; but I have made it so that you can define a "level" for each category. When listing categories on the sidebar, the system will now print out the contents of the template "video_catbit_small_sub" once for each level of the category. So by default, categories are level 0, and video_catbit_small_sub prints out 0 times. If you set a category to level 2, then the contents of video_catbit_small_sub will print out 2 times before it displays the category link. You can see an example of how this works here: http://www.8wayrun.com/video.php

This is the first step in the right direction. But, we're not there yet.

Do we have to change any 'settings' to have this showing? If so, where do we change them?

Originally Posted by Jaxel

Added support for contributor video pages. Very simple, click on the user link and it will go to a page listing all videos uploaded by that user.

This is a great feature, by the way!

Originally Posted by Jaxel

Added support for the category "level" indenting system. In order to change the level of a category, you must do it in the category edit screen in your admincp. I tried to figure out how to do it from the display order screen; but as I said, I dont know much about VB plugins; so i couldn't figure it out.

Does this answer my question from above?

Originally Posted by Jaxel

Changed the videohoster "yesno" setting from "true : false" to "1 : 0"... The problem is that if you set something for true, it worked fine (it properly inputted "1" into the videohoster fields); but if you set something for false, it inputted a null instead of properly inputting "0". So now the "yesno" goes straight to the 1 or 0.

Is this something that happens 'behind the scenes' or do we have to do the settings ourselves?

Originally Posted by Jaxel

The construct_video_bit function now has a new routine for handling the new isHD variable. Basically, if the video service for a video contains the word "HD" in it; it will mark the video as HD in the video_bit. (By default, I have this marking as a red "HD" tag). Now the HD tag will work for ANY high definition hosting service, as long as "HD" is in the $hostername (its inside the XML for the video-hoster).

So, we no longer have to add the "fmt=22&" to the videos?

Originally Posted by Jaxel

@Survivor... the biggest thing I want is a TAGGING system... get that asap! =P

Once the sub-categories work as they should and the tagging is added, that would make things complete :up:

[Jaxel]

Originally Posted by ArnyVee

Is this necessary or simply to mirror what you have on your setup?

No, just a mirror of what I have...

Originally Posted by ArnyVee

This just means that I have to upload via FTP and overwrite the previous ones, right?

You need to upload via FTP AND overwrite the templates in the mod. Just go to your AdminCP > Manager Hoster > Import video-hoster. Import both youtube files and they will automatically overwrite your old ones.

Originally Posted by ArnyVee

How do I do this?

In your style manager, simply select each video template you've edited and hit the "revert" button.

Originally Posted by ArnyVee

Do we have to change any 'settings' to have this showing? If so, where do we change them?

Originally Posted by ArnyVee

Does this answer my question from above?

Yes.

Originally Posted by ArnyVee

Is this something that happens 'behind the scenes' or do we have to do the settings ourselves?

Its behind the scenes, nothing you have to do.

Originally Posted by ArnyVee

So, we no longer have to add the "fmt=22&" to the videos?

You still need to differentiate the difference between HD and SD video; what this does is make it easy to define more than just youtubeHD as an HD video source.

I have however, changed the "fmt=22&" thing... you no longer do it that way... isntead, just change the HTTP in your link to HDEF... easier this way.

So http://wwww.youtube.com/watch?v=12345 becomes hdef://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12345

[TriMe]

This is awesome, Thanks!

[ArnyVee]

Thanks for answering the questions Jaxel :up:

I'm going to do the updates a little later today.

[Mr.samy]

I have problem in rss .... every time i try to see it make log off from my forum

[RenegadeFan]

This is fantastic! We can't wait to put this into use for our members.

Thanks for all the hard work!

[Marka Ragnos]

Nice adjustments

Live demo

http://www.kustmijnkloten.be/forum/video.php


thanks for all your hard work

[tidefans]

Just added jaxel's mods. Looks good so far!

Thanks.

[Marka Ragnos]

<a href="http://www.kustmijnkloten.be/forum/video.php?do=viewdetails&videoid=67" target="_blank">http://www.kustmijnkloten.be/forum/v...ils&videoid=67</a>

for some reason every hd movie doesnt work

the video is no longer available

[ArnyVee]

Well, I finally did the updates this morning, but the contributer video pages aren't there. At least, the links which are supposed to go there (within the Top Contributers section) are still pointing to the public profiles.

Everything else seems to be working so far.

Any tips on what I haven't done which has not changed the actual links from pointing to the right pages?