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;
}

[Gamelobby]

Originally Posted by Gamelobby

Any idea why i get these errors once in a while.?

or

Is it something i do (or someone else) to cause it or just random.?

Originally Posted by EuroBeat2

I wouldn't worry about it. It is usually cause by bots using certain algorithm that generate the error.

EB

Database error in vBulletin 4.1.3:

Invalid SQL:

					SELECT languageid,
			phrasegroup_global AS phrasegroup_global,
			phrasegroup_video AS phrasegroup_video,
			phrasegroup_posting AS phrasegroup_posting,
			phrasegroup_gxbl AS phrasegroup_gxbl,
			options AS lang_options,
			languagecode AS lang_code,
			charset AS lang_charset,
			locale AS lang_locale,
			imagesoverride AS lang_imagesoverride,
			dateoverride AS lang_dateoverride,
			timeoverride AS lang_timeoverride,
			registereddateoverride AS lang_registereddateoverride,
			calformat1override AS lang_calformat1override,
			calformat2override AS lang_calformat2override,
			logdateoverride AS lang_logdateoverride,
			decimalsep AS lang_decimalsep,
			thousandsep AS lang_thousandsep
					FROM language
					WHERE languageid = 1;

MySQL Error   : Unknown column 'phrasegroup_video' in 'field list'
Error Number  : 1054
Request Date  : Thursday, January 12th 2012 @ 11:59:09 PM
Error Date    : Thursday, January 12th 2012 @ 11:59:09 PM
Script        : http://www.example.com/forum/video.php?do=viewtag&tag=laughs&sort=dateline&order=DESC
Referrer      : 
IP Address    : xx.xxx.xx.xxx
Username      : 
Classname     : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

So i am getting these errors emailed to me MANY times per day.. is it something i should worry about or, just ignore the emails.?

[EuroBeat2]

Originally Posted by Gamelobby

So i am getting these errors emailed to me MANY times per day.. is it something i should worry about or, just ignore the emails.?

You can ignore them or disable option of getting errors to be mailed. For your curiosity check ip addresses that cause the error and see if they are in fact bots.

EB

[GhostHunter2010]

hi im havin problem with this mod i installed perfect but when i try submit videos shows

Not Found

The requested URL /media/submit was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

and cannot create categories etc... im gonnna unistall it now.. till they fix this.

[Kraxell]

Hello,

where can i switch off the PN-Notification about comments?

[maherl]

Can someone tell me how this program generates the thumbnail?

I have noticed that the thumbnails created are not the same as (for example) You Tube.

Does it have a built-in process doing this?

I would ideally like the thumbnails to be identical to those generated by You Tube.

[GhostHunter2010]

hmmm installed working now

[maherl]

Originally Posted by maherl

Can someone tell me how this program generates the thumbnail?

I have noticed that the thumbnails created are not the same as (for example) You Tube.

Does it have a built-in process doing this?

I would ideally like the thumbnails to be identical to those generated by You Tube.

Answered my own question after a bit of playing around.

What I didn't realise is that You Tube creates three available thumbnails for display purposes. Jaxel's application can select between them. The default Jaxel uses is '3', whereas most of the videos I want to display use '2'.

To change the setting, select 'Administrate' | 'Services' | choose the YouTube Services entry and then click on 'edit'. Finally, click on the 'Edit Services' button to save your choice.

Change the value on the Thumbnail line to either 1, 2 or 3 according to which thumbnail you want to use.

[maherl]

I have successfully installed this mod on v4.1.10. I had to follow a number of the posts to get it working as it should be.

There is however, one final element that I need to resolve so that it follows the original implementation by Jaxel.

I have noticed that on the example pictures, the main thumbnail screen (album list) has a blue background and the boxes containng the thumbnails in are white (see the first two of Jaxel's screenshots).

On v4.1.10 both boxes are blue! Is there a way of reverting this to as the pictures depict? I tried changing the color of album_blockbody_background from #f2f6f8 to #ffffff (via CP Admin | Style Manager | Style Variable Editor - Default Style | Album), but both the inner and outer colors change together. Perhaps this has been caused by the recent stylevars updates in v4.1.10?

This problem also affects the color of the Tag Cloud and Submit Media boxes on the same screen (and subsequent inner boxes on every screen called-up in the 'Submit Media' section).

Here is a screenshot of my problem:

[maherl]

Originally Posted by maherl

I have successfully installed this mod on v4.1.10. I had to follow a number of the posts to get it working as it should be.

There is however, one final element that I need to resolve so that it follows the original implementation by Jaxel.

I have noticed that on the example pictures, the main thumbnail screen (album list) has a blue background and the boxes containng the thumbnails in are white (see the first two of Jaxel's screenshots).

On v4.1.10 both boxes are blue! Is there a way of reverting this to as the pictures depict? I tried changing the color of album_blockbody_background from #f2f6f8 to #ffffff (via CP Admin | Style Manager | Style Variable Editor - Default Style | Album), but both the inner and outer colors change together. Perhaps this has been caused by the recent stylevars updates in v4.1.10?

This problem also affects the color of the Tag Cloud and Submit Media boxes on the same screen (and subsequent inner boxes on every screen called-up in the 'Submit Media' section).

Here is a screenshot of my problem:

FOUND IT!

Via CP Admin | 'Style Manager' | 'Style Variable Editor - Default Style' then select 'Blocks'
You need to change blockrow_background (background color) from None to White.

[waldvb]

Originally Posted by maherl

I have successfully installed this mod on v4.1.10. I had to follow a number of the posts to get it working as it should be.

Can you post link to your site ? I'd like to see how it works.
I'm looking for media library for VB 4.1.10. I'm not decided - free 8wayrun or paid vbtube. 8wayrun got better layouts and functionality on the sidebar - categories, tags , contributors, statistics. Looks better than vtube. But you got support from VBtube.