New Posting Features - VB AnyMedia Player / Media Sites (youtube, google and many more)

Goldbrick Media system for vBulletin 3.6.x

Thanks to all who nominated or voted this for MOTM.

Some of you might be looking for Anymedia. Well this has replaced it. It's a total rewrite from the ground up. A huge thanks goes to Sir Adrian for creating the framework. He can't cook soup but he sure can code.

Why the name goldbrck?

From Wikipedia:

Goldbricking, in today's terms, generally refers to staff who use their work internet access for personal reasons while maintaining the appearance of working.

From Urban Dictionary:

Goldbricking: To loaf or goof around on the job. Supposedly an old union term describing laborers (or more specifically, bricklayers) who were going so slow, it was as if each brick were made of solid gold. One can alse be referred to as a "goldbricker".

Dude, I spent all day at work goldbricking - surfing the web, making long distance phone calls - basically just picking my ass.

Goldbrick uses the following third party Products:

• Highslide Javascript. I've packaged it with the 3.1 download. Please read the license agreement on highlide's website. In short it's free for non-commercial use. http://vikjavev.no/highslide/
• - - -
• The media player and mp3 player are from http://www.jeroenwijering.com/

What's new in Goldbrick?

• Complete code overhaul.
• Plays most media types.
• Forum admins can add their own video sites
• Updated Highslide.js
• Attachment Images work with Goldbrick
• Don't need to use BBCODE
• Auto Phrases URL's
• Media Options per post
• Much more on the way!

Goldbrick's Requirements:

• Vbulletin :P
• PHP 5

Goldbrick Version 1.5:
- Fixed Vbadvanced integration
- Fixed extensions permissions checking
- Added pickup of old [media] tags
- More code changes for later features

Goldbrick Version 1.4:
- Fixed Apple trailers
- Added Added Viemo videos
- More code changes for later features

Goldbrick Version 1.3:
- Fixed Images
- Fixed MP3's
- Fixed Myspace, now supports myspacetv.com
- Added Increase or decrease video size for the classic player (testebr gets the credit for this one)
- Added Added ESPN videos
- Added Veoh video site.

Goldbrick Version 1.2:
- Added Videos for Profiles for vbulletin 3.7
- Added Classic Skin
- Added Vblog Support
- Added Vbadvanced Support
- Fixed Attachments
- Rewrote some of the code


Planned Features:

- Youtube like interface
- Video Comments
- Media Tags
- Media Searching


Please report any issues or suggestions.

[aamirkhj]

Originally Posted by bostton1

goldbrick folder - forum root (you upload the entire glodbrick folder)

you then find your includes, xml folder and upload bitfield_goldbrick.xml there.


players folder - you upload the entire folder to your forum root.

Thank you bostton1 for helping me out, I followed your instructions and uploaded the goldbrick and players to root and xml file bitfield_goldbrick.xml upload in xml folder but I am getting error while posting the thread, when I try to post the new thread the page goes blank.

I can see all the option working fine seems like it when I open VB Options and can view Goldbrick Media Options but when it comes to posting thread plain white error page dsiplays only.

Can some one helps plz

[bostton1]

have you went to "forum permissions" and enabled goldbrick there? and have you set your goldbrick settings in the "vbulletin options" ?

to clarify, you now have an actual "goldbrick" and "players" folder in your forum root?

[aamirkhj]

Thank you bostton1 for your quick response, I actually set the goldbrick settings in VB options but I am not familiar with "forum permissions" how to enable "forum permissions" and from where??

[bostton1]

i actually meant "forum manager" its located under the "forums and moderators" tab. once there hit the edit button next to the correspending forum. at the very bottom of all the settings will be "Enable Goldbrick in this forum".

[aamirkhj]

Ok Let me check, it is already enabled in all the forums by default but still the same issue do I need to chmod the folder in FTP for permission??

Right now in my ftp folder the chmod is set to 755, do I need to enhance that or else??

[aamirkhj]

Any one knows how to fix it??

[rapidphim]

weird thing for me is that everyone else can see the video, but not me. My FF played the video, but not my IE. I did upgrade my IE browser but not worked. any thought?

[frenzi]

Ok...so like a few others I installed the product and am getting the, "You need to upgrade your flash player" message with individual videos (YouTube, Google, Etc).

The hacks works perfect with Stage6 vids but gives me the error with anything else. I have disabled all other hacks I have installed, tried it on my random different vids and sites, read through 75 pages on this thread and I still am at a loss.

I have configured the permissions and the forums as well as the vb options...no go. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[nix]

Originally Posted by droid101

I've confirmed what's happening (but not why).

If I used vBadvanced modules to show entire posts, it screws up those posts in the actual forums and on the vBadvanced page, until the post is edited. But it reverts to being screwed up the next time the home page is visited on the computer.

I have removed the module that shows posts with goldbrick tags from my homepage, and now I haven't seen any issues when people change styles at all.

Not sure, I don't use vbadvacned. I should just write a CMS to go with goldbrick...hmmm....

Originally Posted by aamirkhj

Thank you bostton1 for helping me out, I followed your instructions and uploaded the goldbrick and players to root and xml file bitfield_goldbrick.xml upload in xml folder but I am getting error while posting the thread, when I try to post the new thread the page goes blank.

I can see all the option working fine seems like it when I open VB Options and can view Goldbrick Media Options but when it comes to posting thread plain white error page dsiplays only.

Can some one helps plz

Do you have PHP 5? If you're getting a blank screen, check to see if your server has error reporting displayed.

Originally Posted by frenzi

Ok...so like a few others I installed the product and am getting the, "You need to upgrade your flash player" message with individual videos (YouTube, Google, Etc).

The hacks works perfect with Stage6 vids but gives me the error with anything else. I have disabled all other hacks I have installed, tried it on my random different vids and sites, read through 75 pages on this thread and I still am at a loss.

I have configured the permissions and the forums as well as the vb options...no go. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Show me a link and I'll look real quick. Hard to say without seeing it.

All the "you need to upgrade your flash player" error mean is that 99% of the time the paths to your .js files are incorrect. I should change that message.

[frenzi]

I played around with different paths to the .js files last night and this morning and am still having probs...

If I set them too...
"http://mydomain.com/public_html/goldbrick/style/highslide.js" then YouTube, Veoh, Etc. will play (although defaults to full screen?) but Stage6 will not. If you click the link nothing happens.

If I set them too...
"goldbrick/style/highslide.js" then Stage6 plays perfect but Youtube, Veoh, Etc give the flash error.

Not sure where to go from here. I can PM you login details if you think it would help.