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...

[drsli]

Originally Posted by SighK

Never mind it has resolved itself. It appears videos that are very recently added to youtube will display that error via this addon. So make sure the video that you are trying to add is well and truly processed on youtube.

First of all: this is a truly awesome addition!
I stumbled upon this "The response of the video-server can't be read."-error recently and I had chmoded the thumbnail- and serviceapi-directories accordingly long before. A couple of videos were added without hassle before, but now for seemingly no reason this error occurs.
The youtube-video, which causes this error, is correctly listed and playable within youtube itself. And I can add this video without problems to vbtube too. So this seems to be a video-directory-related issue.

[madddenaddicto]

Can someone help me with this.. my site is www.maddengaming.com/video.php I have everything installed correctly but im having a problem. My videos pictures arent showing anywhere on the site.. i think somethings wrong with the thumbnails. I dont kno but im wondering if anyone else has this problem or know how to fix it!!

Also i get this error code at the top whenever I create a new video..

Warning: fopen([path]/videothumbnails/YouTube/LKe5dD3nCyo.jpg) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/videoserviceapi/class_youtube.php on line 91

Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in [path]/includes/videoserviceapi/class_youtube.php on line 92

Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in [path]/includes/videoserviceapi/class_youtube.php on line 93


Maybe this is why it isnt working!! Someone please help me out.. I will donate to you!!!!

[MagicThemeParks]

maddenaddicto,

Did you CHMOD777 on the permissions for the videothumbnails directory and all directories within? If not, do that and see if it works.

[madddenaddicto]

Yes i have tried that and it still doesnt work.. i have no idea why

[arabuser]

Originally Posted by Dr. Bantham

An wonderful upgrade to an outstanding mod!

I have a conflict with vBulletin-Glossary which creates the following error when viewing the VIDEO BBCode:

I noticed that there is a post here that indicates turning off cross-linking within vBulletin-Glossary will eliminate the conflict, but that feature is too valuable to lose.

Here is the code which ends in the referenced line number:

PHP Code:

/**
* Check for availability/activated vBSEO and perform url to category
*
* @author     Surviver
*
* @param    string    entry    array with category informations
* @param    string    Appendix to add to the url (e.g. perpage var, page var, etc)
*
* @return    string    url    url to category, either seo-like or standard
*/
function construct_category_url(&$category, $append = '')
{
    global $vbulletin;

    if ($vbulletin->options['vbglossar_vbseo'] AND defined('VBSEO_ENABLED'))
    {
        $url = 'vbglossar.php?' . $vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl'] . 'do=showcat&catid=' . $category['id'] . '&cattitle=' . vbseo_filter_text($category['name']) . $append;
    }
    else
    {
        $url = 'vbglossar.php?' . $vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl'] . 'do=showcat&catid=' . $category['id'] . $append;
    }

    ($hook = vBulletinHook::fetch_hook('vbglossar_category_url')) ? eval($hook) : false;

    $category['url'] = $url;

    return $url;
} 


Note that I do not have vBSEO installed, but I do have vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap Generator installed. When I removed the offending lines of code I received another error from the main vbglossar.php file which did not seem to reference vBSEO. I fear that the conflict may be deeply rooted.

Any ideas what may be causing this error and what might resolve the conflict?

If not, I can disable the VIDEO BBCode, but this results in corresponding threads created by Video Directory without a functional embedded video. This conflict was in the previous version, but not as critical since there was no thread creation feature previously. I can use AME to remedy this if I can simply insert the original URL of the video. I found the location of the code within the videodirectory_newthread and videodirectory_reportthread phrases, but I was unable to modify this to insert the raw video URL. I tried variations of the $videoinfo[url] variable, to no avail. Ideally, I would like to use all features of both mods, but alternatively I will settle for this workaround if I can get the variable to pass.

I face same problem here in conflict betwen video directory and vBulletin-Glossary

[mhackl]

Is there Hulu support available for this Mod?

[MagicThemeParks]

mhackl, does Hulu have an RSS feed for the videos? I know that Jaxel has stated several times that the only way to pull videos from a particular host would be if they have a feed. I don't use Hulu, so I'm not sure if they do or not.

[ludachris]

I'm having a problem with thumbnail creation. The videothumbails directory is set to 777, but all new thumbnail files that get created are set to 600. I can go in and manually change their file setting to 777 and it fixes it, but that obviously doesn't fix the issue. Where is it determined that the file upload will be set to 600?

[FTG STRYKER FG]

Ok, I uninstalled the other guys version according to his instructions. I then followed your instructions to the letter. But I am still gettting the same error I did with his. I cannot get into the "Manage hoster" section. Everytime I click on it, I get the "Manage video-hoster" bar along under it "Title", "Version", "Varname", and "Action", but there are no fields under them for my to enter any information.

My problem started when I first installed the other version. I did not have any API userid's or passwords for Seven.com or MyVideo.com so I went and got some. When I came back, I didn't know how to put them in so I uninstalled and reinstalled the XML. Well after that my problem began.

I unstalled everything, reinstalled, and still nothing shows up when I click on "Manage Hoster". And now its not showing up with your version either. Any ideas?

[FTG STRYKER FG]

Also getting this error:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in [path]/includes/class_dm_video.php on line 155

I believe it has to do with the Hosters, but seeing I cannot view the Hoster page in the ACP, what can I do? Is there a way to add them manually?