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!

[puregraf]

edited! works !!



thanks!!!


could you make the members avatar show next to his name for the comments posted?

[ArnyVee]

Originally Posted by 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.

Would it be simply "RewriteEngine Off" (without the quotes) in a file and uploaded within my videothumbnails directory/folder?

I did that, but it doesn't work. So, I'm assuming that I have to do something else within that file, but I'm not sure what.

[Marka Ragnos]

and make sure the necessary directories are writable

[ArnyVee]

Yup...everything is writable. So, not sure why it's not working yet.

Edited: Just added a new video and it worked. I just realized that you can't adjust and have the old thumbnails show because they were not working. So, I'll just have to upload those three videos again that are not showing thumbnails.

So, the "RewriteEngine Off" piece has to be added for the forums with vBSEO in the videothumbnails directory.

[Jaxel]

I have a degree in Biomedical Informatics; thats basically computer programming for genetic sequencing and stuff like that, but all the programming I do is through PERL. I learned how to program through reverse engineering webscripts a decade ago; which too, were mostly in PERL... so I'm not well versed in PHP or vBulletin (but I can hack the PERL version of UBB easy peasy).

I'm gonna need some help putting together a tag cloud for this program... anyone wanna help me? AIM me: BadBreath911

[indie2industry]

Idea...

There should be a block on the users profile for the videos they contributed. For example, you go to a users profile and in one of the blocks on the right of the profile shows the latest 3 vid thumbnails and you can go to that users archive also... The users archive could follow the same format as the video home page..

Just a thought :-)

BTW, I Love this mod

[RTMdotORG]

can i get an xml for datpiff.com and worldstarhiphop.com?

[Mr.samy]

I think the product need some fixed ...

problem in the product :

1 - When you delete any video ...it is image not delete .

2 - when let visitors to rate the video ... appear to them always You have already rated this video!

3 - When you let visitors to see who is watch who see also the video .... if who see the video members the table appear but if who see the video is avisitor not appear .

I hope to fixed this problem in next released

[puregraf]

Jaxel, is it possible to also make a RSS feed for the categories?

Thanks for your time!

[ArnyVee]

Folks,

I'm having some issues with 'some' of the thumbnails not showing. This is an example of one that I had uploaded but no thumbnail on......

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5-ziqoyr4D8

....anything weird about this video or anything that I have to adjust to make sure it shows? FYI, the person that uploaded it on YouTube is the same person (same username as well) on my site. Could that cause an issue?

Here's the page....

http://www.waltdisneyboards.com/videos/disneyland-3/