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

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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

[akz645]

Does the twitch/youtube video play using Flash or HTML5 player?

Benefits of HTML5 player:
Work on iPads, iPhones, and all current Android/mobile devices. Flash does not.

[DragonByte Tech]

YouTube uses HTML5 exclusively, whereas you have a setting to control whether you want Twitch to use Flash or HTML5.

Fillip

[Gamelobby]

Where is the menu.!?
I don't remember what i did when i first installed this (if/where i made edits), but it hasn't done anything in a long time. lol

Also the new update still does nothing on my site.?

[shadowla05]

hello does any one know why im getting the following on the stream page?

PHP Warning: Illegal string offset 'viewers' in ..../includes/class_core.php(4730) : eval()'d code on line 4

[DragonByte Tech]

This mod doesn't use any eval.

Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

Live Streaming Suite v3.1.0

New Features:

(Pro) "Live Checker" Scheduled Task

• Automatically checks if your added channels are live every 10 minutes
• Improves accuracy of notifications
• Improves front-end performance

Bug Fixes:

• The chat box would not appear correctly on certain skins in the "Featured Channel" block
• The Quick Links and Community links had not been updated to the new livestream.php link

Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

Live Streaming Suite v3.1.1

New Features:

YouTube Embedded Chat

• Implemented YouTube embedded chat
• Currently you cannot post new messages in chat due to API limitations

Bug Fixes:

• "Invalid offset viewers" error on the View page
• (YouTube) Once the correct video ID for the live stream has been determined, it?s no longer overwritten by the archive video ID

Fillip

[ReMarkable1991]

Would it be possible to have like a function/custom page that shows the current top livestreams for a certain game?

You would probably need some kind of Twitch API for that and not sure if it exist with that function.

Edit:

I just checked there seems to be some API for it, if I read it correctly. Also in that API I saw something regarding teams.

I believe this allows you to show all channels live for a certain twitch team/group which would also be great to show.

[malcolmjr414]

I'm receiving a 403 forbidden message, could it be the file permissions?

I've tried reinstalling it.

[Gamelobby]

Should both of these exist.?
twitch.php & livestream.php

The pages look the same, just making sure it is correct to have both.