Major Additions - Video-Directory

Video-Directory - developed by vBPoint.org

What is this?

This add on gives your users the possibility to collect their favourite videos from some video-webpages (supported at the moment: MyVideo, YouTube, Sevenload and Metacafe) and to provide them in the forum. The videos can be commented and rated.

The Administrator has many possibilities of settings and can create video-categories and administrate the video-directory.

List of features:

• Completely integrated in vBulletin
• Many possibility of settings for the Administrator
  • Many possibilities of settings
  • permissions of usergroups
  • Administration of categories
  • Administration of video-webpages
    • Incl. import and export
• Very simple installation
• Homepage can be configured easily
• Videos are integrated in the forum
  • Videos can be voted with AJAX
  • Commets to videos can be posted
  • Videos can be reported
  • User can see other members watching the video at the same time
• Simple search-function
• RSS-Feed of videos
• Advanced WOL-integration
• Advanced vBSEO-integration

Installation:

1. Upload all files from the directory "root" (Keep the structure of folders)
2. The directory of videothumbnails and includes/videoserviceapi needs 777 permissions
3. Import the product-videodirectory.xml from the admin-controllpanel
4. After importing the product DON'T close the window, follow the installiton instructions!

History:

• 1.0.0 RC 1 - First release
• 1.0.0 RC 2 - Improvements and correcting some errors - many thanks to Hapi for reworking the templates!
• 1.0.0 RC 3 - Correting some bugs: 38409, 38496, 38548, 38611
• 1.1.0 Beta 1 - "Major Release"
  • Correcting some bugs
  • New: Search function
  • New: Reporting funvtion for videos
  • New: Import/export funtion for Video-Webpages
  • New: Improvements for guests
  • New: Best voted videos on Mainpage
  • New: vBSEO-Integration
  • New: Simplified installation
• 1.1.0 Beta 2 - Small Bugfix-Release
• 1.1.0 RC 1 - New Feature (Members who are watching the same video at video details page), Bugfixes (Missing File for comments added, vBSEO CRR fixed)
• 1.1.0 RC 2 - Added two new videohosters (sevenload and metacafe), added rss feed, added thumbnail-preview when adding a video, MyVideo Class optimized, some bugs fixed

Roadmap for Version 1.2.0:

• Tag-function for videos
• Favourite Videos (AJAX)
• Watchlist (AJAX)
• [s]User watching the same video at the moment[/s] - Added in Version 1.1.0 RC 1
• Video-comments per AJAX, to avoid reload
• "Video-Profile" for user
• Moderation
• [S]New Videos in forumhome[/S] (See addons)
• [s]RSS-Feed for Videos[/s] - Added in Version 1.1.0 RC 2
• Integration in statistic-block in profile

Developer notes:

Do you want to enhance the video-directory, but some hooks are missing? Do you want to enhance the templates and you need some template-hooks? No Problem! Send a PM and the hooks will be integrated in the next version!

Developer-Blog:

Feel free to check out our Developer-Blog at vBPoint.org!

[NAZIA]

In RC2 ...
There is bug that I feel...At my board...

For metacafe Videos...
We can only add the Videos Url with the Integer values in the address
like this http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1238559

But we can't share http://www.metacafe.com/watch/yt-8Tfh2PnvTnY
sort of videos... yt-8Tfh2PnvTnY i.e both Integers and alphabets in URL after /

What do you say?

[KW802]

I have been searching for a video mod, free & commercial, and have just a few questions...

- Is there a branding free option available?

- Is the current version a prelude to there being a commercial (aka: pay) version in the future?

- Does the API code recognize YouTube videos that are flagged with the option to prevent embedding? (So that users do not try to add videos that can not be remotely embedded.)

- Does it have to be installed in the same folder as vBulletin? (My preference is that I can install it in a different folder like "MySite.com/videos" instead of "MySite.com/forums/video.php"?)


Thanks.

[Surviver]

Originally Posted by NAZIA

In RC2 ...
There is bug that I feel...At my board...

For metacafe Videos...
We can only add the Videos Url with the Integer values in the address
like this http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1238559

But we can't share http://www.metacafe.com/watch/yt-8Tfh2PnvTnY
sort of videos... yt-8Tfh2PnvTnY i.e both Integers and alphabets in URL after /

What do you say?

Mmh. It seems that videos not having a numeric url are only embeded video from other videohosters (in this cas youtube) ...

Originally Posted by KW802

I have been searching for a video mod, free & commercial, and have just a few questions...

- Is there a branding free option available?

- Is the current version a prelude to there being a commercial (aka: pay) version in the future?

- Does the API code recognize YouTube videos that are flagged with the option to prevent embedding? (So that users do not try to add videos that can not be remotely embedded.)

- Does it have to be installed in the same folder as vBulletin? (My preference is that I can install it in a different folder like "MySite.com/videos" instead of "MySite.com/forums/video.php"?)


Thanks.

@Branding Free: Sende me a PM
@"prelude": At the moment, its not planned, to release a commercial version of THIS hack
@Flaggs: Yes - if the video may not be embedded, the user'll get a error message (when he tries to add the video )
@Folder: It's in the same directory as vBulletin. But i added vBSEO Reqrite Rules to this hack - if you use vBSEO and them, your users will think, that the video directory is not a part of the forum (Example Url: forum.com/videos/funny-videos-2/new-hit-46.html)

Regards
Surviver

[NAZIA]

Videos for youtube are working fine...

[KW802]

Originally Posted by passwords

Is there any way to stop " related videos " from youtube ?

Originally Posted by passwords

Hello ..
at the end of youtube videos it show the related videos ( attached pic ) , some times the related video is for adult ( sex, vlc, etc .. ) and i dont want to show that on my forum ..

Originally Posted by doc1975

I second that, only to keep the adult videos from being displayed... haven't noticed any myself as of yet, but lord I'd hate to have a member stumble across one.

Originally Posted by Surviver

That has nothing to do with this hack - we use the default YouTube player - you'd have ro ask youtube.com

Actually....

For those who want to turn of the related YouTube videos, modify your /forums/includes/xml/videohoster-YouTube.xml and scroll down to near the bottom (with the current version it is the second to last function in the file) and find this bit of code:

 function fetch_embedcode($videoid = '')
 {
  $videoid = $videoid ? $videoid : $this->video_id;

  return '<object width="425" height="373"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/' . $videoid . '&amp;rel=1&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6&amp;border=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/' . $videoid . '&amp;rel=1&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6&amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="373"></embed></object>';
 }

In that code several options are passed into the YouTube player via the query string. In this case, it is the "rel" option that needs to be changed. On the line that starts with "return" find the *two* instances of "&rel=1" and change the "1" (true) to be a "0" (false) instead ("&rel=0").

Save the file and refresh your page; the related videos should now be turned off.

[KW802]

Originally Posted by Surviver

....

Thanks for the info; I'll get ya' on PM after I've had a chance to go through some of the options a bit more.

[Daky]

Originally Posted by KW802

Actually....

For those who want to turn of the related YouTube videos, modify your /forums/includes/xml/videohoster-YouTube.xml and scroll down to near the bottom (with the current version it is the second to last function in the file) and find this bit of code:

 function fetch_embedcode($videoid = '')
 {
  $videoid = $videoid ? $videoid : $this->video_id;

  return '<object width="425" height="373"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/' . $videoid . '&amp;rel=1&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6&amp;border=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/' . $videoid . '&amp;rel=1&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6&amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="373"></embed></object>';
 }

In that code several options are passed into the YouTube player via the query string. In this case, it is the "rel" option that needs to be changed. On the line that starts with "return" find the *two* instances of "&rel=1" and change the "1" (true) to be a "0" (false) instead ("&rel=0").

Save the file and refresh your page; the related videos should now be turned off.

It does not work for me.

[KW802]

Originally Posted by Daky

It does not work for me.

Did you save the file on your server? Do a hard refresh in your browser to make sure you were not viewing a cached page?

[Daky]

I saved, and tried 3 different browsers.
I also cleaned all cached\cookies\temporary files etc.

.. still doesn't work for me.

lets see ... if somebody else try ... (might be something wrong i did.. but .. )

thanks tho

[KW802]

Originally Posted by Daky

I saved, and tried 3 different browsers.
I also cleaned all cached\cookies\temporary files etc.

.. still doesn't work for me.

lets see ... if somebody else try ... (might be something wrong i did.. but .. )

thanks tho

As you can see here (http://www.coolscifi.com/forums/vide...ails&videoid=3) it does work. When viewing the page on your site, if you do a 'view source' are you seeing the "rel" option changed to 0? And you are definitely changing both of the values?


EDIT: Hold that thought for now... looks like I may have missed something since I'm getting inconsistent results now. I'll be back.