Miscellaneous Hacks - [DBTech] Live Streaming Suite v3 (vB4)

Live Streaming Suite lets you host a directory of your forum's Twitch.Tv or YouTube channels, complete with stream status, live previews and direct links to users' streams!


Why use Live Streaming Suite?

If you run a gaming forum, and a lot of your users stream content, you know it can be hard to get good exposure on Twitch.tv or YouTube for your members' channels. This mod can help boost your members' exposure by letting them add their own channels to your directory, displaying them in a nice easy-to-browse interface with multiple features that allows viewers to find your channels easily.

You can also use this mod to promote your favourite streamers by adding channels via the AdminCP.


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Complete Feature List

Lite

AdminCP Channel Management

• Add/Edit/Delete channels
• Control channels' display order

Front-End Channel Browser

• Paginated list of channels
• Displays stream status
• Displays offline or preview image (if one exists)
• Displays last or current game streamed
• Displays last or current stream title
• Displays last or current online time (last online time since installing the mod)

Channel Viewer

• View the live stream directly on your forum
• DragonByte vBShout integration

Permissions

• Can View

General / Other

• Display version number
• Enter your Affiliate ID

Pro

AdminCP Channel Management

• Set channel owner, if it belongs to a forum member
• Displays icon in the postbit for channel owner

Manual Channel Notification

• Send a forum PM and/or email (depending on user's subscription preferences) to all users subscribed to a channel
• Customisable title / message
• Useful for alerting users to something the streamer said elsewhere on the web, f.ex.

Manual Channel Schedule

• Ability to edit a channel and set the next stream date, if known
• Displays on the forum's Featured block
• Displays countdown until the chosen date
• Will be expanded to be editable for users in the future

Channel Viewer

• Twitch Chat integration

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• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[DragonByte Tech]

Twitch Streaming Suite v2.0.0 Gold

New Features

Configurable Cache Time

• The amount of time between channels' online status can now be changed in the vBulletin Options
• Default of 5 minutes
• Allows forums to choose their own performance vs. up-to-date information

vBShout Notifications

• Ability to send a notification to all shoutbox instances when channels go live
• Only works with [DBTech] vBShout
• Defaults to off

Default vBShout Settings / Permissions

• Choose a vBShout instance to use as the template for future instances
• Only works with [DBTech] vBShout
• Defaults to none

View Stream Page

• Viewer count is now displayed in the header block

(Pro) Random "Featured Channel"

• Cron job selects a random new "Featured Channel" every 24 hours
• Can be toggled via vBulletin Options
• Defaults to off

(Pro) User-Suggested Channels

• Users with the appropriate permissions can suggest new channels to be added to the directory
• vBulletin Option to control who receives notification when a channel requires moderation

Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

Twitch Streaming Suite v2.0.1

New Features:

Channel Owner In Notifications

• Optionally displays the username of the channel owner instead of the channel name in vBShout, Email and PM notifications
• Defaults to Off
• Displays the channel name if the channel has no owner

Sidebar Block

• The Featured Channel block can now be deployed in the vBulletin Sidebar
• Supports all features of the main Featured Channel block

Channel Image Toggle

• New vBulletin Option to control whether the Channel Image is displayed in the Featured Channel area(s)
• Defaults to Enabled

Bug Fixes:

• (Pro) Random Featured Channel cron job was not working as intended

Fillip

[Andy Stynes]

How Goes it Guys I am a bit of a Noob at this . I have installed v1 of this but as I was a little short sighted on this I never Set to allow overwrite. .
What do I need to do To Install v 2 .

Thanks In Advance.

Andy

[DragonByte Tech]

Simply re-upload the files and import the XML file with Overwrite = Yes (happens every time you import XML), it's fine


Fillip

[Andy Stynes]

Hey guys , thank you for the response but I reloaded all the files as said and then imported the xml and everything went swimingly until I clicked the Tab for the orum and all I got was a white page and it would not load until I uninstalled the twitch suite . Now I know it must be something I have done but I was so taken with the v 1 I will be buying the pro version but This is a slight niggle to me .

Andy

[DragonByte Tech]

Please make sure display_errors is turned on in php.ini

Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

Twitch Streaming Suite v2.0.2

New Features:

Miniature "Featured Channel" Stream

• Optionally replace the channel preview/offline image with a miniature stream
• Defaults to Off
• Controllable via vBulletin Options

Miniature "Featured Channel" Stream: Use Flash

• Ability to set the miniature stream to use Flash player instead of dynamic Flash/HTML5 loader
• Not supported on mobile devices, but allows auto-play control
• Defaults to Off
• Controllable via vBulletin Options

Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

Twitch Streaming Suite v2.0.3

New Features:

"Online Counter"

• Running counter of how many times the stream has been detected going live
• Displays in the channel bit on the Channel List page
• Displays in the Featured Channel block
• Displays on the Featured Channel Sidebar Block

Changes To Existing Features:

Channel Owner

• Now also displays on the Featured Channel blocks

Bug Fixes:

• The sidebar block's preview image would overflow in certain scenarios

Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

Twitch Streaming Suite v2.0.4

New Features:

Feature Live Channels

• Option to automatically set a channel that's detected as going live as the "Featured" channel
• Allows lesser known channels to get more exposure and increases members' incentive to stream
• Controlled via vBulletin Options
• Defaults to off

Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

New Features:

"Next Stream" Countdown

• Also displays on the channel list
• Supports separate countdown timers for separate channels
• JavaScript / jQuery powered

StyleVars

• Miniature Stream Height
• Miniature Stream Width
• Channel Image Height
• Channel Image Width
• Sidebar Preview Image Width

Bug Fixes:

• In some scenarios, an invalid avatar display could have been presented on the Featured blocks

Fillip