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!

[father guido]

Originally Posted by ArnyVee

Well, I finally did the updates this morning, but the contributer video pages aren't there. At least, the links which are supposed to go there (within the Top Contributers section) are still pointing to the public profiles.

Everything else seems to be working so far.

Any tips on what I haven't done which has not changed the actual links from pointing to the right pages?

I am having the same issue - links are directed to:

/forums/member.php?u=xxxx

Instead of

forums/video.php?do=viewuser&userid=xxxx

Not sure where to make the adjustment

[father guido]

Originally Posted by ArnyVee

Well, I finally did the updates this morning, but the contributer video pages aren't there. At least, the links which are supposed to go there (within the Top Contributers section) are still pointing to the public profiles.

Everything else seems to be working so far.

Any tips on what I haven't done which has not changed the actual links from pointing to the right pages?

Here it is - go to your video_contributorbit template and replace the entire contents with

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo; <a href="$user[userurl]" style="line-height: 16px;">$user[musername] (<acronym title="<phrase 1="$user[videocount]">$vbphrase[this_contributor_has_added_x_videos]</phrase>">$user[videocount]</acronym>)</a><br />

That should fix it for you

[tidefans]

Ok... The video does not appear on the video.php=videodetails page.

See the attached screenshot.

Not sure where to look to see what's wrong.

any help is appreciated.

[father guido]

Originally Posted by tidefans

Ok... The video does not appear on the video.php=videodetails page.

See the attached screenshot.

Not sure where to look to see what's wrong.

any help is appreciated.

Did you reinstall your videohoster files?

#2 above - When you re-install the Video-Directory, it also does not re-install your videohoster XML files. Simple, this means you need to re-import the two YouTube XML files I have included in the zip. Just import them and it will automatically overwrite your old YouTube XML files.

[Jaxel]

You guys who are having problems with the embedded video not showing up, or the contributor page links not working forgot to do something... REVERT YOUR TEMPLATES! You are still using the old templates, which still have the old setups.

As for not all HD videos working... not all videos on youtube are encoded in HD... if you try to use the HD embed code in a video that has not been encoded in HD, the video playback will break.

[ArnyVee]

Thanks FatherGuido! :up:

Jaxel, I had reverted all of my templates and everything. Just something didn't take with the one template that FatherGuido mentioned the fix on. So, I used his fix and it now works.

Do you suggest I not use that, Jaxel?

[tidefans]

Originally Posted by Jaxel

You guys who are having problems with the embedded video not showing up, or the contributor page links not working forgot to do something... REVERT YOUR TEMPLATES! You are still using the old templates, which still have the old setups.

Exactly what I needed. Somehow I missed that instruction before. MANY THANKS!

[Jaxel]

Okay... once again I am working on something new... I added two new settings: "Vidbits Per Row" and "Length of the preview-text of title". Obviously, the "Length of the preview-text of title" handles the length of the title to show up on the vidbits. If the title is too long, it will truncate and add an ellipse to the end; the same way that the system truncates the length of the descriptions.

The other variable, "Vidbits Per Row" handles the number of videos that are listed per row. By default, we are all used to seeing only one video per row. I prefer seeing more; so now you can program it! If you wish to stick with only one video, it will as usual call up the "video_bit" template. If you use more than one video per row, it will call up a new template called "video_bit_more". My forum is using TWO for example:
http://www.8wayrun.com/video.php?do=viewuser&userid=1

Of course, a lot of templates have been rewritten and files have been edited to handle it all. So I would be uploading my new changes till next week; as I'm expecting to change more.

[ArnyVee]

Jaxel, that is a very interesting option to have! Thanks for working on this like you have and I look forward to seeing the changes next week

By the way, my thumbnails aren't showing here...

http://www.waltdisneyboards.com/videos/

....what the heck did I do wrong? Any tips? I've got the directory of videothumbnails (and folders within) and includes/videoserviceapi at 777 permissions, but no thumbnails for me.

[Jaxel]

Most thumbnail problems occur because of your htaccess settings; and as I see, you are using VBSEO. Upload an htaccess file to your thumbnail directory, turning rewrite off.