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;
}

[Jaxel]

Originally Posted by harleyparts

lol i just posted this in the mod contest

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....06&postcount=8

Lol... I honestly don't care. These kind of contests are more of a popularity contest than anything else. I'm not a popular person on any forum I attend; simply because I expect everyone else on the forums to have the same amount of common sense as I do... so I tend to ignore people who don't, or respond to them with disdain. I like it when people get to the point, and hate it when people give me the run around. I also hate repeating myself, and fixing "dumb" problems.

I'm sure you guys have read my previous posts and can just feel some of the hate I have for other programmers around here (especially the UI designers of vB4; the programming is GREAT, but the UI and styling is atrocious)... When it comes to programming, common sense is essential. This isn't PERL, this is PHP... there are right and WRONG ways to do things. Its the responsibility of every programmer to do their best to do things the right way, and skim off as much overhead from a program as possible.

Not only that, what I hate most is when people tell me they have an error... but then don't bother to actually post the error.

Really, if I had $5 for every nomination... I think I would be better off.

[hotslot]

Jaxel, I would love to personally hire you on this project and a few other simple things You could do for my forum.. How does $200 sound?

[kho91]

after upgrading i lose all Thumbnails and i can't do "Rebuild Media Thumbnails" i have this error

Warning: fopen([path]/customVID/thumbs/100.jpg) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/media/media_functions_builds.php on line 23

Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in [path]/media/media_functions_builds.php on line 24

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in [path]/media/media_functions_builds.php on line 25

Warning: getimagesize([path]/customVID/thumbs/100.jpg) [function.getimagesize]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/media/media_functions_builds.php on line 27

[your24hourstore]

go into your server to customVD folder and then CMOD thumbs folder to 777 from 755
then go into admicp/maintenace/ update counters/ go all the way down and run rebuild media thumbnail
should work from then on.

[kho91]

i have also this error in my mail adress

Database error in vBulletin 4.0.3:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT * FROM vbmedia_tag WHERE media_tag.tagText = 'allah';

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'media_tag.tagText' in 'where clause'
Error Number : 1054
Request Date : Wednesday, May 5th 2010 @ 01:57:52 PM
Error Date : Wednesday, May 5th 2010 @ 01:57:52 PM
Script : http://www.mysitename.com/media.php?do=rss&tid=random
Referrer :
IP Address : 67.195.111.167
Username : gest
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

[your24hourstore]

Originally Posted by Jaxel

Lol... I honestly don't care. These kind of contests are more of a popularity contest than anything else. I'm not a popular person on any forum I attend; simply because I expect everyone else on the forums to have the same amount of common sense as I do... so I tend to ignore people who don't, or respond to them with disdain. I like it when people get to the point, and hate it when people give me the run around. I also hate repeating myself, and fixing "dumb" problems.

I'm sure you guys have read my previous posts and can just feel some of the hate I have for other programmers around here (especially the UI designers of vB4; the programming is GREAT, but the UI and styling is atrocious)... When it comes to programming, common sense is essential. This isn't PERL, this is PHP... there are right and WRONG ways to do things. Its the responsibility of every programmer to do their best to do things the right way, and skim off as much overhead from a program as possible.

Not only that, what I hate most is when people tell me they have an error... but then don't bother to actually post the error.

Really, if I had $5 for every nomination... I think I would be better off.

that tools mod has no support as far as i can tell closed thread, heck people cant even help themselves if the mod is closed !

1 vote and less installs just how does that contest work.? thats what is bothering me LOL
and yes we can feel you , but unlike you most people here have no idea whats going on, they are learning and hey i have to give a person credit for trying. everyone needs to learn something new everyday .

we do appreciate your hard work , and this sort of hard work should be noticed!

[kho91]

Originally Posted by harleyparts

go into your server to customVD folder and then CMOD thumbs folder to 777 from 755
then go into admicp/maintenace/ update counters/ go all the way down and run rebuild media thumbnail
should work from then on.

i do that but i it don't work

[SwollenCranium]

Originally Posted by Jaxel

Warning: mysql_real_escape_string() errors will be fixed in next version. mysql_real commands are reserved for MySQL, not MySQLi. So in the next version, i have changed the procedure to use the addslashes command instead.

Thanks !!

[your24hourstore]

Originally Posted by kho91

i have also this error in my mail adress

Database error in vBulletin 4.0.3:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT * FROM vbmedia_tag WHERE media_tag.tagText = 'allah';

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'media_tag.tagText' in 'where clause'
Error Number : 1054
Request Date : Wednesday, May 5th 2010 @ 01:57:52 PM
Error Date : Wednesday, May 5th 2010 @ 01:57:52 PM
Script : http://www.mysitename.com/media.php?do=rss&tid=random
Referrer :
IP Address : 67.195.111.167
Username : gest
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

i wouldnt worry about that one untill you fix the other one, might fix that tag error if you just ddo what i said for the media thunmbs rebuild

[your24hourstore]

Originally Posted by kho91

i do that but i it don't work

customVD folder
all the folder in that folder should be 777 before you rebuild

when you rebuild scroll down as the thumbs are being rebuilt and see if it errors at the bottem. if it doesnt its working

probibly wont hurt to run Rebuild Media Information too!