New Posting Features - VB AnyMedia Player / Media Sites (youtube, google and many more)

Goldbrick Media system for vBulletin 3.6.x

Thanks to all who nominated or voted this for MOTM.

Some of you might be looking for Anymedia. Well this has replaced it. It's a total rewrite from the ground up. A huge thanks goes to Sir Adrian for creating the framework. He can't cook soup but he sure can code.

Why the name goldbrck?

From Wikipedia:

Goldbricking, in today's terms, generally refers to staff who use their work internet access for personal reasons while maintaining the appearance of working.

From Urban Dictionary:

Goldbricking: To loaf or goof around on the job. Supposedly an old union term describing laborers (or more specifically, bricklayers) who were going so slow, it was as if each brick were made of solid gold. One can alse be referred to as a "goldbricker".

Dude, I spent all day at work goldbricking - surfing the web, making long distance phone calls - basically just picking my ass.

Goldbrick uses the following third party Products:

• Highslide Javascript. I've packaged it with the 3.1 download. Please read the license agreement on highlide's website. In short it's free for non-commercial use. http://vikjavev.no/highslide/
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• The media player and mp3 player are from http://www.jeroenwijering.com/

What's new in Goldbrick?

• Complete code overhaul.
• Plays most media types.
• Forum admins can add their own video sites
• Updated Highslide.js
• Attachment Images work with Goldbrick
• Don't need to use BBCODE
• Auto Phrases URL's
• Media Options per post
• Much more on the way!

Goldbrick's Requirements:

• Vbulletin :P
• PHP 5

Goldbrick Version 1.5:
- Fixed Vbadvanced integration
- Fixed extensions permissions checking
- Added pickup of old [media] tags
- More code changes for later features

Goldbrick Version 1.4:
- Fixed Apple trailers
- Added Added Viemo videos
- More code changes for later features

Goldbrick Version 1.3:
- Fixed Images
- Fixed MP3's
- Fixed Myspace, now supports myspacetv.com
- Added Increase or decrease video size for the classic player (testebr gets the credit for this one)
- Added Added ESPN videos
- Added Veoh video site.

Goldbrick Version 1.2:
- Added Videos for Profiles for vbulletin 3.7
- Added Classic Skin
- Added Vblog Support
- Added Vbadvanced Support
- Fixed Attachments
- Rewrote some of the code


Planned Features:

- Youtube like interface
- Video Comments
- Media Tags
- Media Searching


Please report any issues or suggestions.

[nix]

This is because before most video sites didn't have a crosssite.xml file set up. They just allowed anyone to connect with flash. This is a huge security hole and pretty much all the video sites fixed this. This is why you can't use the anymedia player to play sites like youtube anymore. Its not a bug with this hack.

There are still ways of doing it but it requires an API.

[Mecho]

yea u right . thanks for explain . anyway that would be great if it can be fixed somehow . with or without that fix , this hack is great

thanks

[nix]

The only fix is to use an API if the site has one. Youtube has one but everyone would have to get an developers ID to use it. Its something I can look into later.

Does anyone use the options code when posting a video or media? I'm looking to streamline this hack as much as possible and I don't see a need for that. Any thoughts on it?

[Tralala]

Originally Posted by nix

Does anyone use the options code when posting a video or media? I'm looking to streamline this hack as much as possible and I don't see a need for that. Any thoughts on it?

Yes, my members do in fact use the options to resize video all the time (usually Yahoo video.) They shrink it to 320 x 240 to match the original dimensions of their digicam videos they take. It looks much better that way (as opposed to the default size Yahoo stretches it to.) They don't use the autostart or loop options though. But size, certainly. Please don't get rid of it!

[nix]

I won't. As long as someone uses it i'll leave it. I should be done with 3.1 soon. It's taken a little longer then I expected just because of real life stuff. I'm sure you know how that is. But I think it will be worth the wait. Its really going to stand out. I have fixed most of the stuff that drives me crazy about embedding videos.

The first release will be a beta and I'll tweak with your suggestions.

[Finster]

So if I read things correctly this mod will no longer work with YouTube videos?

[halcyoncmdr]

Youtube videos will still work. They were talking about using a separate anymedia embedding player instead of the site's default like the anymedia for 3.5.x had an option for. It will still support all the current video sites just fine.

[bostton1]

I don't understand this option could someone explain it in simple terms.

Disable the AnyMedia BBcode in Quote Tags

Setting this option to 'yes' will filter the AnyMedia BBCodes in the Quote Tags.

also, is there anyway to have the media player centered by default in the post.

Thanks

[ldma]

Ok...having a problem here. Uploaded the latest files, then imported the crist 3.5 product reading that the 3.6 product doesn't work on 3.5...seems ok. When I go to the options screen and try to select media types and save ..nothing gets saved...what's going on?

[nix]

this version wont work with crist version. You'll have to go through the new product.xml and delete wherever you see this.

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I'm also pretty close to being have a test version of 3.1 out.