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.

[JayT123]

Upgraded to 1.8 and mp3 attachments still will not play. Again, inline links play fine but attachments just stop.

[mhammed]

I think that there's a bug display with IE and Opera
there is a gap important in the display where the plugin is active , as in the picture accompanying
this bug is not visible with Firefox




my style is not fluid (fixed width 900 px)



Excuse my verry poor inglish




click installed, nominated for MOTM
PS: the flash mp3 player don't support files compressed sample rate less than 44100 Mz

[BrOkEn.HaLo]

Everything is working beautifully on my forum. I only have one issue. When you click on "Profile Video" in the UserCP and it takes me to "Add a Profile Video" page at the I get the error message

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in [path]/goldbrick/plugins/profile_start.php(19) : eval()'d code on line 2

It still takes the URL and submits it and works beautifully. I'd just like to clear up the error message. What do I need to do to fix this error?

[rapidphim]

broken, can you please help me test dailymotion, megavideo to see it's working? Also, do you see the "Test Only" under the image when display full size?

[naisho]

Just tested dailymotion and megavideo and it works.

What would be nice is to be able to remove or disable the automatic title below thumb because with some languages (asian languages) it doesn't display correctly (different charset) and also because when the title is long, it doesn't display well below video.
Here are two examples. One with a too long title (dailymotion) and another one with japanese language not displayed correctly (youtube).

[DDad]

I had someone tell me it didn't work for them using a mac with firefox. Anyone else have this problem if so what are they doing wrong?

[nix]

Originally Posted by mhammed

I think that there's a bug display with IE and Opera
there is a gap important in the display where the plugin is active , as in the picture accompanying
this bug is not visible with Firefox




my style is not fluid (fixed width 900 px)



Excuse my verry poor inglish




click installed, nominated for MOTM
PS: the flash mp3 player don't support files compressed sample rate less than 44100 Mz

I'll look into it. If its IE6 I'm not to worried about it.

Originally Posted by BrOkEn.HaLo

Everything is working beautifully on my forum. I only have one issue. When you click on "Profile Video" in the UserCP and it takes me to "Add a Profile Video" page at the I get the error message




It still takes the URL and submits it and works beautifully. I'd just like to clear up the error message. What do I need to do to fix this error?

I'll see if I can reproduce it.

Originally Posted by rapidphim

broken, can you please help me test dailymotion, megavideo to see it's working? Also, do you see the "Test Only" under the image when display full size?

Dailymotion works fine. Can you post the link you're using that doesn't work?

Originally Posted by naisho

Just tested dailymotion and megavideo and it works.

What would be nice is to be able to remove or disable the automatic title below thumb because with some languages (asian languages) it doesn't display correctly (different charset) and also because when the title is long, it doesn't display well below video.
Here are two examples. One with a too long title (dailymotion) and another one with japanese language not displayed correctly (youtube).

I'm going to add the remove titles and I'm also going to trim the long ones.

Originally Posted by DDad

I had someone tell me it didn't work for them using a mac with firefox. Anyone else have this problem if so what are they doing wrong?

Firefox 2 on the mac has known flash bugs. Firefox 3 has fixed these and will be released in June. You can use a nightly build of it now to test. Yes I'm on a mac.


I want to thank everyone for helping me test 1.8. I'll have some more bug fixes out on Sunday or Monday.

If you have the problem where you just see media tags, instead of editing every thread, you can just empty your postphrased table in phpMyAdmin. I'll add something so it will easier in the future.

If you're having problems with attachments, make sure your attachment system is switched to the file system and you have whatever extension you're using to vbulletin. Attachments are working with 1.8.

[rapidphim]

thanks Nix, I'll post those links when I get home. However, do you know why the highslide for the image thumbnail is gone?
for dailymotion & megavideo, I only show URL link instead and for some, it displays blank white screen on the popup. Don't know why I always have problem with Dailymotion.

Here is the link to DailyMotion: I grabbed the perman link
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4c...xauxi0100_news

Here is the megavideo link
http://www.megavideo.com/v/VQNZGRSSb...7b.719069754.0

[HAVOK USA]

Very Nice - works great!

Installed and voted for MOTM

[TheProphet]

I got an error on the vBadvanced main page, on the forum its working perfect.
On Opera and Firefox im not having this error only in IE7.
See for the pics.