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;
}

[ProFifaLeagues]

Originally Posted by Jaxel

For anyone who is having problems getting links to appear with permissions in the navbar... there is a "work-a-round" you can do. It will enable the links for EVERYBODY (they will be stopped with a permission error if they can't use the links, so security is still intact). I believe this problem is an error with VB itself not handling permissions in plugins on some forums. Go into the plugin: "media NAVTAB":

Find the line:

$perms = media_permissions();

REPLACE with:

$perms['submit'] = true;
$perms['modtags'] = true;
$perms['modcategory'] = true;
$perms['modservice'] = true;

Works superb now thank you!

[Delilahs]

Jaxel, I'm having trouble parsing the Veoh feeds, can you tell me what I need to use from the following url please?

http://www.veoh.com/search/videos/q/...614098RApHrbDQ

[Jaxel]

I just uploaded a new version, fixes a variety of problems. No need to re-install, just upload the files.

Originally Posted by Delilahs

Jaxel, I'm having trouble parsing the Veoh feeds, can you tell me what I need to use from the following url please?

http://www.veoh.com/search/videos/q/...614098RApHrbDQ

Thats because that URL is NOT a URL to a Veoh Video. That is a SEARCH RESULT URL. On that page, scroll down to the text box that says "LINK" and use that URL.

Originally Posted by mobe00

What about this problem , can you solve this one ?

Fixed in new version, no need to re-install, just upload the files.

Originally Posted by By_X1903

Turkish char. problem?

What happened...

Originally Posted by Destron

I uninstalled everything and re-installed the mod, but I still have the same problem.
Can't use spanish characters nor can I edit the video descriptions.

After extensive testing, I have figured out the language problems. Language problems in SUBMISSIONS are fixed in the new version, no need to re-install, just upload the files.

Language problems in OTHER places, such as comments are THE FAULT OF VBULLETIN ITSELF. Don't worry! I will tell you how to fix it! Go into your Admin Control Panel and head to the section called "Languages & Phrases > Language Manager". Then click the EDIT SETTINGS link for your language. See I have programmed this mod to integrate directly into the settings of your VB; this way it is uniform. However, the problem is by default, vBulletin does not use the UTF-8 language charset, even though it SHOULD. In the section marked "HTML Character Set", this SHOULD be UTF-8 and if you are having language problems, most likely it is set to ISO-8859-1 (vb default, for english languages only).

Example of my test forum using Russian Language after switching to UTF-8:
http://test.8wayrun.com/media/m1493--tatu

The only issue you will have with THIS mod is with SEO slugs, you can't have foreign characters in a URL.

Another issue you will have is with VB itself and the RSS Feed Manager. If you are using VB's RSS Feed Manager to automatically post threads from feeds, and the feed you are pulling from is non-english; then it won't convert the text to UTF-8. For some odd reason, VB's built in RSS parser always defaults to ISO-8859-1 (very poor programming). Someone should report this as a bug, but I have a feeling that they will say its "by design" and never change it.

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/proje...?issueid=37806

[Delilahs]

Thanks Jaxel, that works a treat

Marked as installed and nominated for MOTM

[COL NIL SATIS]

Also Nominated for MOTM ..Jaxel absolute legend man

[xTREKKERx]

great mod, all working fine apart from???

there is no thumbnail in the created post, just a broken link?
i believe i have done everything in the instructions.....
the thumbnail file is created as per instruction.
customVID/thumbs

but when i look at the broken link where the thumb should be, it says this.
customVID/1/TpLd2KT32Gg.jpg

any ideas?

all set to 777.

[rotor]

Originally Posted by xTREKKERx

great mod, all working fine apart from???

there is no thumbnail in the created post, just a broken link?
i believe i have done everything in the instructions.....
the thumbnail file is created as per instruction.
customVID/thumbs

but when i look at the broken link where the thumb should be, it says this.
customVID/1/TpLd2KT32Gg.jpg

any ideas?

all set to 777.

Same .... since upgrading to version 4.0.4

[mobe00]

a question . when i use rssfeedreader.com for example and do an rss feeder from google news..the rss feed shows the actual pictures as thumbnail in the rss feed. When i use the rss feed link to media library it either just shows the link to the image, an icon or nothing. Is there an image code that need to be put in the rss feed code for media library ??

[TimberFloorAu]

Jaxel you are a STAR !!!

Ever since upgrading to vb4 we have had issues with our character set, and never thought to set it to utf-8

Pages seem to even load faster now lol./
Thanks

[Delilahs]

Jaxel, can you fix the code so that the 'auto create thread' is ticked by default?