Major Additions - Goldbrick Audio/Video Media System

Goldbrick Media system for vBulletin 3.7

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/
• - - -
• 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

Planned Features:

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

Install Instructions:

1. Upload file contents in the upload folder.
2. Import the Product.xml

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


Supported Video Sites: 19 so far. Looking in goldbrick/sites folder for a full list. Users can create their own. I'll post a HOW-TO with the details.



Please report any issues or suggestions.

[pirotess]

Did some further research. The file /includes/xml/bitfields_goldbrick.xml got uploaded with permissions set at 750. I changed them to 755 and it fixed the error.

[OsideRida06]

Originally Posted by nix

You can manually move it or find another hook location.



disable usercp_nav_start plugin.

You said I can manually move it or find another hook location. I do not know how to edit the hook locations. That is why I posted those two comments. And I do not know how to manually move these, because I do not know what calles your product besides the hook location. Where can I edit this at?

On the other one for the userCP you said to just disable the hook location? That will then get rid of the blogs link in the userCP. So how can I just take it out of that hook template? How do I get to it, so I can edit it?

[Chadi]

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...lkjesus.com%2F

Line 743, Column 79: document type does not allow element "a" here.
…eturn hs.close(this)" class="control"><img src="goldbrick/images/close.png" a

http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/v...lkjesus.com%2F
A lot of css errors too. Your previous version was never like this.

Please fix this problem. Its in the goldbrick header template.

[nix]

Originally Posted by chadi

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...lkjesus.com%2F

Line 743, Column 79: document type does not allow element "a" here.
?eturn hs.close(this)" class="control"><img src="goldbrick/images/close.png" a

http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/v...lkjesus.com%2F
A lot of css errors too. Your previous version was never like this.

Please fix this problem. Its in the goldbrick header template.

That is all highslide.js. It's still in work.

[rapidphim]

I upgraded to 3.7.2 without any problem with this hack. However, just a question for Nix... did your mod play wma extension?

[OsideRida06]

Originally Posted by OsideRida06

You said I can manually move it or find another hook location. I do not know how to edit the hook locations. That is why I posted those two comments. And I do not know how to manually move these, because I do not know what calles your product besides the hook location. Where can I edit this at?

On the other one for the userCP you said to just disable the hook location? That will then get rid of the blogs link in the userCP. So how can I just take it out of that hook template? How do I get to it, so I can edit it?

.......?

[Ted Clore]

If you have been asked this, I apologize, but I didn't see any recent threads that dealt with the issue.

Is there a way to add your own site?

I would like to use this like a podcasting feature and put videos on my own site and have them appear in a post.

Any direction would be appreciated.

Thank you.

[nix]

Originally Posted by Ted Clore

If you have been asked this, I apologize, but I didn't see any recent threads that dealt with the issue.

Is there a way to add your own site?

I would like to use this like a podcasting feature and put videos on my own site and have them appear in a post.

Any direction would be appreciated.

Thank you.

Yes you can. If they are just links all you have to do is post the link and hit reply.

If you have a "video" site you want to add there is a how-to in the instructions.

[Dr.H]

I'm using vb 3.7.2 and your 1.91.
Youtube videos play fine but flv videos I'm having a hard time with. People can't figure out how to show them, instead there is just a big "M" and nothing loads. Videos like these for example http://www.escapistmagazine.com/vide...ro-punctuation Is their anything I need to do to get flv files to load?

[RedGTiVR6]

Originally Posted by nix

For the people using version 1.9, how it is working for you?

Good as far as I can tell.

I do have an issue when someone wraps a link to a PDF with the media tags though.

It turns it into a box with the words Highslide JS in it as the link.

Is that normal?