Major Additions - Video-Directory Remixed

This mod has been rewritten for vB4x here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=240677

This modification is based on the Video-Directory modification by Survivor and vBPoint.org.
His mod is NOT dead, its still alive and kicking; but he has informed me that he just doesn't have the time to maintain it and give support. So until he is able to work on it agian; I've been doing a series of updates.

What is this mod?

This mod adds a fully featured and fully integrated video directory archive to your forums. Users can add their favorite videos from their favorite video service to the directory. I only support a few select hosters; but the hoster scripting is XML base, so any user can create their own scripts for any number of hosting services. The old MyVideo and Sevenload scripts from Survivor's version will still work, but they wont pull in Keyword/Tagging information, nor the video length time codes.

Basic Feature Listing:

• Fully integrated into the vBulletin user database and product manager.
• Fully phrased and built on templates for easy reskinning and styling.
• Fully administratable and a myriad of settings for personalization.
• Complete customization of permissions based on usergroups.
• Landing page for broad information and fully featured tag cloud.
• Category profiles for videos.
• Contribution profiles for users.
• Keyword profiles for tag cloud.
• Built in comment system for videos.
• Search function for titles and descriptions.
• RSS feed of videos.

Product Demo:

http://www.8wayrun.com/video.php

Installation Procedure:

1. Upload all files in the "upload" directory to your forum root.
2. CHMOD /videothumbnails/* and /includes/videoserviceapi to 777.
3. Import the product "product-videodirectory.xml" in your Product Manager.
4. Follow the on screen instructions to configure your video hoster settings.
5. Refresh your administration control panel to see the new navigation links.

NOTES:
vBulletin 3.7.0 instituted a new avatar-thumbnail system. There is a high probability that you are unaware of this new system and may have failed to setup your vBulletin to make use of it. Make sure that a directory called /thumbs is located in your avatar directory and CHMOD it to 777. Then go into Maintenance > Update Counters and run the Rebuild Custom Avatar Thumbnails process.

Upgrade Procedure:

1. Upload all files in the "upload" directory to your forum root.
2. Take note of the information stored in Limits of Videos > General Settings.
3. Import the product "product-videodirectory.xml" in your Product Manager.
4. Re-establish your previous Limits settings in Videos > General Settings.
5. Re-import ALL of your hosters and settings in Videos > Manage hosters.
   • You MUST remember to re-import your hosters after upgrading.

NOTES:
You may lose your category dataman when you upgrade. If no categories are listed after an upgrade, you will be required to rebuild your category dataman. Its very easy to rebuild it if you need to. Simply go into Videos > Manage categories, select ANY category and hit [Edit], then click [Save]. Your category dataman will automatically be rebuilt.

Roadmap for the Future:

• Moderation
• Favorites
• Playlists

Don't forget to click INSTALL!

If you want to donate, I'm all for it... as I'm an unemployed computer programmer...

[Jaxel]

Google, Myspace, Yahoo and MSN dont have publicly available per-video XML (not just a REST API). If they dont have a publicly available per-video XML, then there is nothing I can do for it... A per video XML feed is basically a file that your server can retrieve to get the specific information about a video. If it doesn't exist, then you have nowhere to get the information... Here are some examples...

Veoh: http://www.veoh.com/rest/video/v831782W7CC6yez/details (its mangled, but it should still work)
YouTube: http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/DxkbFNXTfhs (view source)
Dailymotion: http://www.dailymotion.com/rss/video/x7s7tj (view source)
Metacafe: http://www.metacafe.com/api/item/2296082 (view source)

If you want me to add a video hoster, give me a link to an XML construct and I will do it.

[bjhuang]

try these:

PS. you have to make a dir under videothumbnails and chmod 777 to save the thumbnails

mkdir videothumbnails/myspace
chmod 777 videothumbnails/myspace

[Leo Brazil]

I've been using Survivor's mod for a while successfully and I have a few questions ?

As this mod was based on that one, to upgrade that one for this one, is that easy ? I mean just like if was the same mod that has been updated or is there a trick or somenthing for ?

By the way, I remember many requests for sub-categories for thise mod, any chances for it ?

Thanks.

[Chadi]

Originally Posted by Jaxel

Google, Myspace, Yahoo and MSN dont have publicly available per-video XML (not just a REST API). If they dont have a publicly available per-video XML, then there is nothing I can do for it... A per video XML feed is basically a file that your server can retrieve to get the specific information about a video. If it doesn't exist, then you have nowhere to get the information... Here are some examples...

Veoh: http://www.veoh.com/rest/video/v831782W7CC6yez/details (its mangled, but it should still work)
YouTube: http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/DxkbFNXTfhs (view source)
Dailymotion: http://www.dailymotion.com/rss/video/x7s7tj (view source)
Metacafe: http://www.metacafe.com/api/item/2296082 (view source)

If you want me to add a video hoster, give me a link to an XML construct and I will do it.

www.godtube.com

Thanks

[Jaxel]

Chadi, Godtube does not have a per-video XML.

You can take a look at what bjhuang did... he didn't use the per-video XML. Instead he just pregmatched the page itself and pulled the information right from that. While it should work, you could have issues with size of pages being too big; or websites changing their layout (YouTube seems to change their layout every 2 weeks).

[Chadi]

I'm sorry jaxel, I have no idea what you're telling me to do. I'm not a coder or programmer of any kind. If you could do this for me, I'd appreciate it. You seem to make it sound like its a simple thing, but for me I'm lost here

Thanks for your help.

PS: they changed their name/domain to tangle.com

[boxhamster]

Originally Posted by bjhuang

try these:

teastet myspace and it works, thanks! just the video-thumbnail is missing?
http://vampster.com/forum/video.php -> "APRON: Broken Child"-video

Markus

[bjhuang]

Originally Posted by boxhamster

teastet myspace and it works, thanks! just the video-thumbnail is missing?
http://vampster.com/forum/video.php -> "APRON: Broken Child"-video

Markus

you have to create a dir to save the thumbs

mkdir videothumbnails/myspace
chmod 777 videothumbnails/myspace

for some sites, it is impossible to get all the information. you could edit the xml and modify the thumbnail path to whatever you like (fixed url to an image).

the author should provide a input box for thumbnail url or a function to load a default thumbnail....

BTW, you must have ability to modify the code of regex matching cause layouts change from time to time. i won't provide an update.

[ishare]

I would like to thank you very much for this gread mod.

Because of my website is not in English and i use different language description for each video (plot for movie reviews) i will appreciate it a lot if someone help me with getting just the video thumbnail but not description and video title, after click the "load information from service" button.

Regards

[member007]

Where do you edit and add categories?