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

Lite

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

[DragonByte Tech]

I did a quick hotfix update to fix an issue with open_basedir (and safe_mode for older PHP installations) that would cause the stream to fail to fetch.

Also, as a general note: Do not input the full http://www.twitch.tv/<channelname> URL - it's only the <channelname> part that should be added. Anything else and it will fail to fetch the channel data.

I may look into automatically stripping this data for a future version


Fillip

[skol]

It's nice,but I know the question will be asked,so I'll ask it now..Why are they only linking to the channels? And not embedding..

[DragonByte Tech]

Because embedding does not give easy access to following & subscribing to the channel, AFAIK

Embedding would be doing the channel owner(s) a disservice in that regard.


Fillip

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Because embedding does not give easy access to following & subscribing to the channel, AFAIK

Embedding would be doing the channel owner(s) a disservice in that regard.


Fillip

If you want to unlazy, you can do some of the fancier stuff with using an API key, etc.

Remote/embedded views are shown ads as well, so its not really a disservice.

[DragonByte Tech]

But doing so will inconvenience the admins by forcing them to sign up for that program

For the time being (and especially for a mod coded from scratch in ~8 hours), direct linking is IMO a better alternative to embedding.


Fillip

[ti6]

Nice Mod! Many people really wanted something like this.

1. Problem: I just can add 1 new Channel-ID with a Channel Owner. If i want to add more Channeli-IDs with the same Owner it replaces the previous Channel-ID. Am i the only one with this problem?

But great Mod anyway.

Cheers,

[DragonByte Tech]

That is intended behaviour. However, you can add channels with no owners via the AdminCP - an owner is not required


Fillip

[ti6]

Thanks for your answer. There is another thing:
Iam not exactly sure in what case this happend but its the secound time:

If i create a channel and want to edit it later on but > all fields are empty (pink).



Now if i want to delete this Channel (pink) the following error occured:

PHP Code:

Could not find phrase 'dbtech_twitch_invalid_x'. 


The reason i want to edit this channel is that the link was correct in the first place, but then it automatically added the following:
urbanzone > urbanzone%E2%80%8E



I re-installed the whole product and it works fine again but that is a strange behaviour. I guess not intended.

Thanks for support,

Cheers,

[EasyEazy]

Great mod. Works like a charm. Nice work.

[ti6]

Hmm, i got the same problem again with the first entry. Some Channel-Links adding stuff like %E2%80%8E again.
Any solution for this?