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;
}

[your24hourstore]

Originally Posted by Rick7C2

I have done everything in the instructions but still I have no option to edit categories. Everything else works fine.

do you use vsa chat? mod

[Xencored]

Originally Posted by harleyparts

do you use vsa chat? mod

PHP Code:

$perms['rate'] = true;
$perms['comment'] = true;
$perms['submit'] = true;

if (is_member_of($vbulletin->userinfo, explode(',','5,6')))
{
    $perms['modtags'] = true;
    $perms['modcategory'] = true;
    $perms['modservice'] = true;
} 


This byepass it
works fine with VSA chat mate (with the code added)

Originally Posted by Rick7C2

I have done everything in the instructions but still I have no option to edit categories. Everything else works fine.

What Usergroup are you in?? whats is the usergroup number in the admin

[Rick7C2]

Originally Posted by Animemike

PHP Code:

$perms['rate'] = true;
$perms['comment'] = true;
$perms['submit'] = true;

if (is_member_of($vbulletin->userinfo, explode(',','5,6')))
{
    $perms['modtags'] = true;
    $perms['modcategory'] = true;
    $perms['modservice'] = true;
} 


This byepass it
works fine with VSA chat mate (with the code added)




What Usergroup are you in?? whats is the usergroup number in the admin

OMG I feel so retarded lol

I got it now I didn't even think to add the usergroup id numbers in the code.

Thanks for the help. I have 1 more problem though posted here...

Originally Posted by Rick7C2

How does this script figure out if a video has already been posted before?

Reason I ask is because the must be an error in it because I keep getting...

On a video that has not been posted yet.

[Xencored]

Originally Posted by Rick7C2

How does this script figure out if a video has already been posted before?

Reason I ask is because the must be an error in it because I keep getting...

Our records show that this particular media is already in the media library!
On a video that has not been posted yet.

Well could be that your cant embed that video
some people turn it off on uploading a video

[stwan]

Not valid code in member's page:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.mysite.ru/forum/clientscript/vbulletin_css/style00041l/8WR_media.css" />

[sefe]

hello, this looks and sounds like an awesome MOD and I'm about to pull the trigger........ I do have 2 questions though....

1. Do you have to install the JW Player in addition? Or is it included in your files?

2. Can you add an upload option that would allow users to upload their own personal videos and other media to the defaulted directory as mentioned below rather than an administrator having to do it or having to setup an FTP option to that directory?

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 "localvideo:filename" or "localaudio: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.

[your24hourstore]

Originally Posted by sefe

hello, this looks and sounds like an awesome MOD and I'm about to pull the trigger........ I do have 2 questions though....

1. Do you have to install the JW Player in addition? Or is it included in your files?

2. Can you add an upload option that would allow users to upload their own personal videos and other media to the defaulted directory as mentioned below rather than an administrator having to do it or having to setup an FTP option to that directory?

users can upload links from youtube or any other supported site, if you give them permission to do it, to actually host you are limited but i think you will have more options in the next version is what Ive read. its a great mod just because you can have have videos that may pertain to your site. it is a great mod , no need for a player, as it uses flash on the users end

[urstorm.com]

you vedios not working , others working fine , also other vedios are click able ..mean if u click on any u go to the orginal vedio site and that bad ,,,
try maje it locally
arabic language look bad in tags title,,,
pls fix ?

[DAMINK]

I uninstalled this mod. It did not suit my needs. However i am getting sql errors all the time now.

Invalid SQL:

					SELECT languageid,
			phrasegroup_global AS phrasegroup_global,
			phrasegroup_8WR_media AS phrasegroup_8WR_media,
			phrasegroup_posting AS phrasegroup_posting,
			options AS lang_options,
			languagecode AS lang_code,
			charset AS lang_charset,
			locale AS lang_locale,
			imagesoverride AS lang_imagesoverride,
			dateoverride AS lang_dateoverride,
			timeoverride AS lang_timeoverride,
			registereddateoverride AS lang_registereddateoverride,
			calformat1override AS lang_calformat1override,
			calformat2override AS lang_calformat2override,
			logdateoverride AS lang_logdateoverride,
			decimalsep AS lang_decimalsep,
			thousandsep AS lang_thousandsep
					FROM vblanguage
					WHERE languageid = 1;

MySQL Error   : Unknown column 'phrasegroup_8WR_media' in 'field list'

Any way to stop this?

[EquinoxWorld]

Hello, I am about to add the CRR for Media Library but I have a concern that we have put the old url links in alot of the video description to link them to other videos. These would obviously not be rewritten. How would I go about making sure the old media url links would redirect to the new ones? I have made a support ticket at VBSEO and they said they don't support CRR in support ticket system I posted a post in their thread but have yet to receive any info. If anyone has any insight as to what I can do to make this work please let me know. We have over 18,000 videos most of them with links to the others and I cannot add these CRR unless these url links redirect correctly to the episode. Thanks everyone for your time.