Miscellaneous Hacks - [DBTech] Live Streaming Suite v3 (vB4)

Live Streaming Suite lets you host a directory of your forum's Twitch.Tv or YouTube channels, complete with stream status, live previews and direct links to users' streams!


Why use Live Streaming Suite?

If you run a gaming forum, and a lot of your users stream content, you know it can be hard to get good exposure on Twitch.tv or YouTube for your members' channels. This mod can help boost your members' exposure by letting them add their own channels to your directory, displaying them in a nice easy-to-browse interface with multiple features that allows viewers to find your channels easily.

You can also use this mod to promote your favourite streamers by adding channels via the AdminCP.


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Complete Feature List

Lite

AdminCP Channel Management

• Add/Edit/Delete channels
• Control channels' display order

Front-End Channel Browser

• Paginated list of channels
• Displays stream status
• Displays offline or preview image (if one exists)
• Displays last or current game streamed
• Displays last or current stream title
• Displays last or current online time (last online time since installing the mod)

Channel Viewer

• View the live stream directly on your forum
• DragonByte vBShout integration

Permissions

• Can View

General / Other

• Display version number
• Enter your Affiliate ID

Pro

AdminCP Channel Management

• Set channel owner, if it belongs to a forum member
• Displays icon in the postbit for channel owner

Manual Channel Notification

• Send a forum PM and/or email (depending on user's subscription preferences) to all users subscribed to a channel
• Customisable title / message
• Useful for alerting users to something the streamer said elsewhere on the web, f.ex.

Manual Channel Schedule

• Ability to edit a channel and set the next stream date, if known
• Displays on the forum's Featured block
• Displays countdown until the chosen date
• Will be expanded to be editable for users in the future

Channel Viewer

• Twitch Chat integration

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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of pages generated by this mod which includes:

• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[FalconSpy]

It appears when I try to install this plugin/addon, it just hangs in the "installing product" section when uploading the xml

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by FalconSpy

It appears when I try to install this plugin/addon, it just hangs in the "installing product" section when uploading the xml

Please make sure you have display_errors turned on in php.ini and that SKIP_ALL_ERRORS is not defined in your config.php file.


Fillip

[PabloAM]

Could you add it compatibiliry with gaming.tv ??

Thanks!

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by PabloAM

Could you add it compatibiliry with gaming.tv ??


Thanks!

This does not appear to be possible, as gaming.tv does not provide a public API.


Fillip

[KGodel]

Are there plans to allow users to submit their own channels instead of having admins manually add them?

[DragonByte Tech]

Twitch Streaming Suite v2.1.2

New Features:

"Featured Channel"

• Ability for the channel to only show up on the forum home page when the channel is live
• Toggled via vBulletin Options

Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

Twitch Streaming Suite v2.1.3

New Features:

"Featured Channel"

• Ability to implement mini chat in the forum home "Featured Channel" area
• Toggled via vBulletin Options

Fillip

[ProFifaLeagues]

Great mod just installed on our new site using Vbull 4.2 and it also worked with the links being posted in your chat box mod,Today many streams been shown but not once has it shown up in DBShout any ideas how to fix this?

[DragonByte Tech]

Live Streaming Suite v3.0.0

New Features:

YouTube Streaming Support

• YouTube channels can now be added to the modification
• Uses Google's APIs for retrieving streaming information
• Embedding the video stream works exactly like a normal YouTube embed

Channel Nicknames

• Channels can now be given a nickname
• Handy for YouTube channels (whose channel IDs are long, random strings)
• Displays anywhere the channel ID would be shown to the user previously
• Also used for the Shoutbox title for the [DBTech] vBShout integration

Changes To Existing Features:

• Channel information is now also updated when viewing the channel page

Bug Fixes:

• (vB4) The sidebar block template should now be cached as intended

Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by ProFifaLeagues

Great mod just installed on our new site using Vbull 4.2 and it also worked with the links being posted in your chat box mod,Today many streams been shown but not once has it shown up in DBShout any ideas how to fix this?

This mod won't detect a stream as live unless a member visits a page where the stream is displayed. If the mod doesn't detect a stream as live, nothing is entered in the shoutbox.


Fillip