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...

[Jaxel]

I BELIEVE I have the import script working perfectly for the import from Video Directory Remixed.

However, I need at least one person with AIM to test it for me.

[Veer]

Originally Posted by Jaxel

I BELIEVE I have the import script working perfectly for the import from Video Directory Remixed.

However, I need at least one person with AIM to test it for me.

Please check my PM

[Jaxel]

Okay, attached is the mostly unphrased beta... don't install this beta on your LIVE forum yet. Keep it to test forums; and make sure you import your existing Video Directory Remixed database to your test forum. I've also included my HTACCESS file; which I think everyone with apache should be using over what you find at vbulletin.com.

INSTALL
- Upload all files in "upload" to your forum root
- CHMOD 777 customVID and its subdirectories
- Install product from your admin control panel
- Set your usergroup permissions
- Program your Media Library settings, especially your thumbnail quality setting... At 50%, your thumbnails will be about 2kb in size, at 80% about 5kb in size and at 100%, 15kb in size. By default, the setting is for 50% quality, but I recommend changing it to 80%.

UPGRADE (after you install)
- go into plugin manager and enable the "media ADMIN import" plugin, once you finish the upgrade process, you will want to disable this plugin again so you don't accidentally use it. this upgrade process will truncate your existing media tables, so you should only ever do this process once.
- go into update counters maintenance and run the "Import Media from Video Directory Remixed" process. VDR needs to still be installed on your forums (but disabled, since it wont run on VB4x) and the video tables should still be in your database.
- when this import is done, it will automatically run the "Rebuild Media Information" process.
- go into update counters maintenance and run the "Rebuild Media Thumbnails" process. This is a very intensive process, but it will rebuild all thumbnails for your media to the new thumbnail format I have created for this mod.

YOU WILL GET ERRORS WHILE REBUILDING THUMBNAILS!

Rebuilding thumbnails will tell you for which media it is working on, and then display the new thumbnail. If the rebuild process stops with an error; you can easily click on the link provided for that media and see if there is anything wrong with the media. Often you will see something along the lines of "This video has been removed" from YouTube or something else.

This means the video is gone, and thus the thumbnail was unable to be regenerated. Delete the video from your library, as its no longer of any use to you, and restart the thumbnail rebuild process from where you left off. You can easily skip to where you left off, by inputting the ID of the last completed video into the section labelled "Media ID Staring Location".

If you don't see any error when you click the link provided, that simply means that there was a syn/ack request failure (consider it a hiccup) and it was unable to connect. Just try again from that specific ID.

[EquinoxWorld]

AWSOME news my friend. We will surely test it out and give feedback. Today is a very happy day. Thank you so much Jaxel!

[kho91]

thank you jaxel

i have this error

Database error in vBulletin 4.0.2:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT media_tag_content.tagID AS tagID, media_tag.*, COUNT(*) AS count
FROM vbmedia_tag_content AS media_tag_content
INNER JOIN vbmedia_tag AS media_tag ON (media_tag.tagID = media_tag_content.tagID)
GROUP BY media_tag.tagID, media_tag.tagText
ORDER BY count DESC
LIMIT 50;

MySQL Error : Table 'mydatabasename.vbmedia_tag_content' doesn't exist

[kho91]

i have this in my config.php

Prefix that your vBulletin tables have in the database.
$config['Database']['tableprefix'] = 'vb';

sorry i dont speak english

[final kaoss]

This mod is for vbulletin 3.8.X

Originally Posted by kho91

thank you jaxel

i have this error

Database error in vBulletin 4.0.2:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT media_tag_content.tagID AS tagID, media_tag.*, COUNT(*) AS count
FROM vbmedia_tag_content AS media_tag_content
INNER JOIN vbmedia_tag AS media_tag ON (media_tag.tagID = media_tag_content.tagID)
GROUP BY media_tag.tagID, media_tag.tagText
ORDER BY count DESC
LIMIT 50;

MySQL Error : Table 'mydatabasename.vbmedia_tag_content' doesn't exist

[kho91]

i know that but we have a script to upgrad to vb4

[final kaoss]

Then you wont be able to use it. It will not work on vbulletin 4.X versions, until the author decides to update it to be compatable with vbulletin 4.X

[Jaxel]

Okay, here is a fixed product file... uninstall the previous version first.

You will need to edit the product and DELETE the SECOND "Existing Install/Uninstall Code" before you will be able to uninstall it. There was a problem with the install procedure related to uStream.