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;
}

[mygitar]

Originally Posted by sharemee

Hello,

Did you find a solution to this ?

using VB 4.1.5
only just noticed as i was just about to add a few vids, but was given the same message :



just incase you need to know,

when i click the import media to import from YT the description does not import with the video


Love to get this working again, ..


PLease help


Best Regards

Any Solution for this issue? I tried with IE and Chrome, i always have the same problem... Also i can NOT even write more characters for the description field, seems that cant be saved.

Regards.

[Katelynn]

I'm confused on one thing .. can the mod "Video Directory" be updated to this new MOD? I have over 6,000 videos running in vB 3.8.6 and Video-Directory 1.3.0

I would like to update to vBulletin 4.1.x and this MOD if possible? I can't afford to lose 6,000+ videos

If anybody has any advise to convert to this MOD and vB 4.1.x please PM me. Thank You

[Kike Ovalle]

Originally Posted by ShawnV

Using 4.1.7 pl2, after digging through all 157 pages and doing every fix it seems to be working.

http://www.elementsofdarkness.com/me...details&mid=23

Yes, I'm one of those people who donated $50

===================================
ooook... but, Where can I find the tutorial ???...or ... the way to insert the video into the article???'
pleaseeeeee... help !!!!!!

[ndahiya]

Originally Posted by bintoro

Upgrade to 4.1.7 and update these two fix using :

- https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=2117

- https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=2107

Upgraded to VB 4.1.8.
Using these 2 fixes, the mod is working properly! (these fixes are for media description not saving properly).

For the template edits, TMS users can use the attached file to upload directly to TMS.

ndahiya

[temsamane]

i didnt need this mod, so i deleted it completely ( 2 months ago)

but on google (webmaster tools) sitemap i still get 120 url with errors: not found

urls like:

media.php?do=category&cid=1&sort=dateline

media.php?do=details&mid=154

these are urls from the 8wayrun mod. how can i solve this problem???

[AndrewSimm]

I cant find the link to create categories. Where is it?

[sross]

well, it looks like vbtube is viable replacement. The developer for that seems to have a beta import script, I've left word with him that if the import is robust I'll buy his product.

[EuroBeat2]

I did upgrade VB from 4.1.7 to 4.1.8 and now looks like TAGS when displayed are not separated. Any idea what can be done to active separation? I did not have this problem in 4.1.7.

EB

[AndrewSimm]

I am getting the same thing on the tags but on 4.1.7

[EuroBeat2]

Originally Posted by AndrewSimm

I am getting the same thing on the tags but on 4.1.7

Let make me clear. the TAGS issue I referred to was for individual entry. For instance, some entries had three TAGS separated by comma now there is no separation. I did have the same issue with 4.1.7 but with Global page showing ALL tags. I didn't know what to do, so I simply disabled: MAIN: Tag Cloud Entries from AdminCP.

EB.