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;
}

[LouisB]

Hi Jaxel. I've noticed 2 errors so far:

I'm using the recent update and when i try to go to a members profile who have added media i get this error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function register() on a non-object in /home/user/public_html/media/media_functions_constructs.php on line 270

every other members profile who haven't added any media is okay. and... When i go to maintenance and try to update media information i get this:

Warning: require_once([path]/media/media_functions_href.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/admincp/misc.php(2067) : eval()'d code on line 99

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/user/public_html/media/media_functions_href.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/user/public_html/admincp/misc.php(2067) : eval()'d code on line 99

[Jaxel]

Originally Posted by LouisB

Hi Jaxel. I've noticed 2 errors so far:

I'm using the recent update and when i try to go to a members profile who have added media i get this error:



every other members profile who haven't added any media is okay. and... When i go to maintenance and try to update media information i get this:

Both those bugs have been fixed within the past 2 hours... please download and install the current version of 0.8

[Jaxel]

Originally Posted by Delilahs

tried that and it doesn't work still

Try disabling each Media Library plugin 1 by one, until your CMS starts working again. Then tell me which one fixed it and I will look into it.

[Delilahs]

It's BBCode fetch thatg knocks it out

[bluecat]

Hi,

I'm using a force www in my htaccess (since users don't stay logged in if they don't type the www, plus the duplicate content factor). However, when I active your SEO URL's option and add the code to my htaccess file, I get an error blank page if I don't type in the www., and it says Permanent Redirect. Can you tell me how to fix this so I can use the SEO option?

Thank you

[Veer]

Updated to latest version, works superbly.

Tried MySpace videos, its just fine now but it do not get length for media automatically.

On Sitemap page (media.php?do=sitemap) I got this error message (before generating XML Media Sitemap):
Warning: file_get_contents([path]/customVID/sitemap/media.xml) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/media/media_rss.php on line 109

I checked media xml file, it is getting wrong information:
<video:content_loc>http://www.domain.com/customVID/TFvKeZPAnNo</video:content_loc>
under the customVID folder there is nothing called TFvKeZPAnNo.

[Jaxel]

Originally Posted by Veer

Updated to latest version, works superbly.

Tried MySpace videos, its just fine now but it do not get length for media automatically.

If you look at the MySpace service file, you will see for svcLength it is marked as NULL. This is because MySpace's built in xml data does not have a DESCRIPTION (wtf?!); so I had to use their meta information, which has a description, but doesn't have length.

Originally Posted by Veer

On Sitemap page (media.php?do=sitemap) I got this error message (before generating XML Media Sitemap):
Warning: file_get_contents([path]/customVID/sitemap/media.xml) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/media/media_rss.php on line 109

Of course you got that error... because you didn't generate the sitemap yet. You can't retrieve information from a file that doesn't exist.

Originally Posted by Veer

I checked media xml file, it is getting wrong information:
<video:content_loc>http://www.domain.com/customVID/TFvKeZPAnNo</video:content_loc>
under the customVID folder there is nothing called TFvKeZPAnNo.

This reason alone is why I originally chose only to include LOCAL media in the sitemap. This tag is asking for the direct link to the video itself... something that we don't have, because the video isn't local. We are embedding from external sources.

Originally Posted by bluecat

Hi,

I'm using a force www in my htaccess (since users don't stay logged in if they don't type the www, plus the duplicate content factor). However, when I active your SEO URL's option and add the code to my htaccess file, I get an error blank page if I don't type in the www., and it says Permanent Redirect. Can you tell me how to fix this so I can use the SEO option?

Thank you

Please send me the contents of your HTACCESS file.

Originally Posted by Delilahs

It's BBCode fetch thatg knocks it out

I dont see anything in that plugin that would cause this problem. Its probably a conflict with another mod on your website.

[Veer]

Originally Posted by Jaxel

This reason alone is why I originally chose only to include LOCAL media in the sitemap. This tag is asking for the direct link to the video itself... something that we don't have, because the video isn't local. We are embedding from external sources.

Alright, so is there any way to switch off LOCAL media for sitemap? because I think the media library is originally designed for external sources media, personally I don't use LOCAL media, not only me most of all use this for external media sharing.

[sontran]

Originally Posted by Jaxel

Both those bugs have been fixed within the past 2 hours... please download and install the current version of 0.8

Fatal error: Call to a member function register() on a non-object in /PATH/public_html/vbb/media/media_functions_constructs.php on line 270


I 've just downloaded and installed the lastest version but still got the above error. Please check

[Mulle]

When I submit a new video from this page: http://www.streetrace402.com/v4/media.php I get this error:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /v4/media.php on this server.

Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

It seems that the "submit media" button have wrong link.