New Posting Features - VB AnyMedia Player / Media Sites (youtube, google and many more)

Goldbrick Media system for vBulletin 3.6.x

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/
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• 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

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


Planned Features:

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


Please report any issues or suggestions.

[nix]

Originally Posted by Emaginsoft

I added:

so$media[id].addVariable('autostart',true);

to the template and it shows up in the html -> source on the page. Just acts like the player is not getting the var.

My next step is to hack the player flash source to always auto play and I dislike flash so I'll be extremely grateful.

What you have is correct. Go here http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_MP3_Player and download the latest mp3player and it will work. Thought I updated it.

[nix]

if you want it to work with anymedia settings use this.

so$media[id].addVariable("file","$media[link]");
			so$media[id].addVariable("repeat","$media[loop]");
			so$media[id].addVariable("showdigits","true");
			so$media[id].addVariable("showdownload","$media[download]");
			so$media[id].addVariable("autostart","$media[autoplay]");

[ammoskumar]

NIX in beta 3 i can not embed any video from any site what am i doing rong.... if you can installtion instruction that'll be appreciated

[nix]

I would have to look at your forum to see.

[Emaginsoft]

Thanks. I had previously downloaded that player but did not want to upload it cause the filesizes were extremely different. I'll give this a shot and let you know how it goes.

Thanks.

[tminus]

Finally .flv is working on my site! Thanks Nix!

I would love for local videos to appear like supported site videos with the video thumbnail versus the Anymedia icon, and the video title versus "click here to watch video." I am sure you are working on this for a future release, so in the meantime, can you suggest a way I can make it work? Like maybe adding an html file with the video embedded and specific code for Anymedia, then using that as the link versus the actual file link. Any help you can give would be appreciated.

Thanks

Originally Posted by nix

The problem with that is that it would change it for all users. But if people want this I can.

Why not just add it in user options and let the user select their Anymedia style preference? I think allowing admin to decide upon install or allowing users to select their style preference is a good idea. Even though I prefer Highslide, I can see why others might prefer the original.

[nix]

The reason why it can't really be a user setting is that it goest in the posted phrased and isn't converted again. So it would it would what ever the style is for the person who posted.

Not sure about the thumb for the local files. They don't have thumb nails by default. You would have to create one.

[bing11]

nice code but can someone teach me how can use vbblog

[nix]

You want to use this in vblog? I haven't tried.

[Freesteyelz]

Nice. The DB error upon post preview and Quick Reply seems to have been fixed. Thank you.