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.

[cosy]

i have the version 1.91 and still get problems when edit the post

is there any way to clear the tag[media] from all post ?

[Medina]

Yoehoeee nix. lol

Time for an update!

[Medina]

Is it possible to use this product with vBlog?

And how do you activate it? Because i doesnt work for me (version 1.91).

[pjaco]

very nice mod

[Greenskull]

im getting a problem when i go into a thread/try to post a new one:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ')' in /homepages/38/d208038817/htdocs/goldbrick/plugins/bbcode_create.php on line 53

Any ideas?

[Medina]

@ Greenskull;

Download and upload the package 1.5 and also upload the 1.91 package. (both!)
Chmod goldbrick/cache to 777.

[mangus580]

Ok... I give...

I have been trying all afternoon to set this up to accept images via the attachment manager, and use the goldbrick media player to run them as a slideshow

what am I doing wrong?

I can post a link to an image in the message box, it works fine. I can upload a video via the attachment manager, it works fine.

If I upload an image normally, it uses lightbox still... If I turn lightbox off, and upload an image, it just makes a new window.

HELP!!

[mangus580]

anyone?

[ultimatearco]

Hey, you should add compatibility with Revver, that would be great!

[alexsinev]

Hi, nix!

I installed the mod 3 months ago. It works fine for me. But I had problems with the pages with lots of photos, they opend very slowly (about 3 min). I didn't know the cause of this until I found out that the tables gb_cache and gb_media in my database have about 1,5 million records each.

After that I turned on Goldbrick Cache in Goldbricks options, as you wrote here, and set the chmod for the cache folder to 777.

The cache works fine! The pages with lots of photos load slowly only the first time, after that they open very quickly. But I have one question.

You wrote:

Originally Posted by nix

This version will empty the gb_cache, gb_media and vb's postparsed tables in the database to prevent any errors.

Unfortunately the tables gb_cache and gb_media haven't been emptied. They still have about 1,5 million records each. How can I empty them? Can I simply delete all the records from them? And what about vb's postparsed tables?

Please, answer.

And thanks again for the mod.