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8WayRun.Com - Media Library
Mod Version: 4.1.7, by Jaxel (Coder) Jaxel is offline
Developer Last Online: Dec 2012 I like it Show Printable Version Email this Page

vB Version: 4.0.x Rating: (221 votes - 4.62 average) Installs: 928
Released: 17 Apr 2010 Last Update: 27 Oct 2010 Downloads: 7284
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This is a new modification, spawning from the old VB 3.x Video Directory modifications.
For all intents and purposes, both my old Video Directory Remixed mod, and Survivor's original Video Directory mod have been discontinued. Neither of us are maintaining these older versions, they will not receive any future updates and we will not be providing any support. This version has a new name because it has been completely rewritten from scratch and is not being built on Survivor's old code. Because of this, if you are upgrading to this new version, from the old version, be sure to read this entire post in order to understand the upgrade process.

What is this mod?
Simply put, this mod is a directory for media. It supports URL inputs, in order to extract meta data and directorize media into a simple and easy to understand library. Users can add their favorite media from a select few online distribution centers (such as Youtube or Vimeo) and categorize and tag them as they see fit. This mod offers rudimentary support for the hosting of local media. An administrator can upload a media to the /customVID/ (default) directory; then add the media to the library using the URL code of "local:filename". Media hosted locally will be displayed using JWPlayer, but will not provide meta data, so that kind of information will need to be entered manually.

Demo:
http://www.8wayrun.com/media.php

Features:
  • Integrated directly into the vBulletin user database and product manager.
  • Fully phrased and built on tempaltes for easy re-skinning and styling.
  • Simple to use administration features and usergroup permission settings.
  • Landing page with the most recent, most popular and highest rated media.
  • Ability to add media into a single category, while adding multiple tags.
  • Ability to browse media through categories, tags, and user contributions.
  • Summary tag cloud with a link to the entire list of tags in the system.
  • Comment and rating system based on AJAX including graceful degredation.
  • Individual RSS Feeds for newest videos, categories, tags and user media.
  • Search function for titles and descriptions.
Installation:
If you are upgrading from before version 1.1, please install that version first.
  1. Upload all the files in the "upload" directory of the attached zip file to your forum root.
  2. CHMOD the /customVID/thumbs/ directory to full read/write/execute 777 permissions.
  3. CHMOD the /customVID/sitemap/ directory to full read/write/execute 777 permissions.
  4. Import the product file called "product-medialibrary.xml" in the Product Manager of vBulletin.
  5. Set your usergroup permissions and media library settings in your administration control panel.
  6. OPTIONAL: Enable the "Generate XML Media Sitemap" scheduled task in your administration control panel.

    NOTES: Make sure you decide what you wish to use for your thumbnail quality setting. By default, thumbnails are saved at 50% quality. At 50%, thumbnails will only be 2kb in size, but at the expense of quality. At 100%, thumbnails will be about 15kb in size, but will have the highest quality. I recommend setting it to 80%, which would leave thumbnails at 5kb in size with still excellent quality.

    Every time you change your thumbnail quality setting, you will need to run the "Rebuild Media Thumbnails" to see any changes.
Upgrading from VDR:
  1. The "video*" tables from your previous installation of VDR need to exist in your database.
  2. Enable the "media ADMIN import" plugin in the plugin manager of your control panel.
  3. Run the "Import Media from VDR" process in your update counters menu in maintenance.
  4. Disable the "media ADMIN import" plugin in the plugin manager of your control panel.
  5. Run the "Rebuild Media Thumbnails" process in your update counters menu in maintenance.
  6. You may now uninstall VDR once you confirm everything has been imported as intended.

    NOTES: You will mostly likely get at least one error while rebuilding media thumbnails...

    When you get an error, click the details link for that media. If the media displays some sort of error such as "This video has been removed" or "This video no longer exist", then that means that media is gone and you'll be unable to generate a thumbnail for that particular media. Use the available options on that media's detail page to DELETE it from your library. Then go back to your browser window which is rebuilding thumbnails and click the "retry from this position" link.

    If you got an error for a media, but after clicking the details link you can find no obvious error with the video; then the error could have just been a simple syn/ack failure. Just click the "retry from this position" link and the system will try to rebuild that thumbnail again.
Known Bugs:
There is a conflict with this modification and some of Valter's VSA modifications that will prevent navbar permissions from being handled correctly. I don't know exactly who's fault it is; but I'm pretty sure there are no errors in my code that would be causing this problem. There is a work around for this however.

Admin Control Panel > Plugins & Products > Plugin Manager > "media NAVTAB"

Find the code:

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  #1441  
Old 03 Sep 2010, 02:12
Jaxel Jaxel is offline
 
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Originally Posted by liefdesdichter View Post
nice one but VDR was better google was possible en there was a better config menu
Actually, this one is better than VDR. Google video only worked on VDR because someone else (not me) made an XML for google that parsed the ENTIRE google page and simply pulled the relevant data. There was no error checking, no API and no meta at all. VDR worked on APIs only. This mod uses APIs and meta. I didn't support Google on VDR, and right now its not supported either.

Originally Posted by Ninos View Post
It's probably been asked before, but you gotta understand that there's 96 pages to root thru.

How do I remove the "media" tab from the navigation bar?I'm using a custom navigation tabs mod and I'm linking to the seperate categories direct and therefore I don't have any use for the 'media' tab if you get me. See it wouldn't be a problem but if I disable the navtab plugin it removes ALL related navigation too (eg. the secondary navigation links).
Disable the plugin "media NAVTAB"

Originally Posted by bada_bing View Post
Any Help please
MonkeySee is not supported right now.

Originally Posted by cloferba View Post
where i can find more services on xml format...to import them?

thanks! amazing mod!
What service are you looking for?
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Old 03 Sep 2010, 03:07
Jaxel Jaxel is offline
 
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GOOGLE VIDEO...

God its so hard to program with a broken keyboard. On-Screen Keyboard sucks.
Attached Files
File Type: xml Google.xml (1.2 KB, 21 views)

Last edited by Jaxel : 03 Sep 2010 at 04:17.
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Old 03 Sep 2010, 04:00
michaelmash michaelmash is offline
 
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hi jaxel .

please make xml for youku.com and tudou.com

i make those two XML base on youtube.xml change the domain name and some regex, it can parse url but cant get media ,say some media wrong with the url. i dont know why. if we need parse new site just need do the xml template or we need change some php code?
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Old 03 Sep 2010, 04:18
Jaxel Jaxel is offline
 
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Originally Posted by michaelmash View Post
hi jaxel .

please make xml for youku.com and tudou.com

i make those two XML base on youtube.xml change the domain name and some regex, it can parse url but cant get media ,say some media wrong with the url. i dont know why. if we need parse new site just need do the xml template or we need change some php code?
Please show me what you've already done, so I can tell you waht you did wrong.
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Old 03 Sep 2010, 17:03
Ninos Ninos is offline
 
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Originally Posted by Jaxel View Post
Disable the plugin "media NAVTAB"
Thanks for the reply Jaxel, but as I mentioned in my post (at least I think I did anyway) not only does this remove the main tab on the nav bar, but it removes all the secondary navigation links too. I need those links so I can upload additional media etc. so is there a way of removing the tab "Media" WITHOUT removing the 8wayrun media navigation too?

I hope that makes sense.
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Old 03 Sep 2010, 17:10
COL NIL SATIS COL NIL SATIS is offline
 
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Real name: Col
Jaxel is it possible to embed Veetle into VB forums like you can with Youtube, JTV, Ustream etc...?
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Old 03 Sep 2010, 17:20
EquinoxWorld EquinoxWorld is offline
 
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Originally Posted by Ninos View Post
Thanks for the reply Jaxel, but as I mentioned in my post (at least I think I did anyway) not only does this remove the main tab on the nav bar, but it removes all the secondary navigation links too. I need those links so I can upload additional media etc. so is there a way of removing the tab "Media" WITHOUT removing the 8wayrun media navigation too?

I hope that makes sense.
Try this:

In the 8WR_media_NAVTAB delete :


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Old 03 Sep 2010, 17:38
Ninos Ninos is offline
 
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Thanks for that EquinoxWorld, but where is that found? I've opened the 8WR_media_NAVTAB plugin but this is all the code I got:


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Looks like that code is either within one of the following files perhaps:

media/media_functions_hrefs.php
media/media_functions_perms.php

Thanks again your help is appreciated
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Old 03 Sep 2010, 17:42
EquinoxWorld EquinoxWorld is offline
 
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Originally Posted by Ninos View Post
Thanks for that EquinoxWorld, but where is that found? I've opened the 8WR_media_NAVTAB plugin but this is all the code I got:


Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)  
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Looks like that code is either within one of the following files perhaps:

media/media_functions_hrefs.php
media/media_functions_perms.php

Thanks again your help is appreciated
It is actually a lot easier than that my friend. It is in the template 8WR_media_NAVTAB . No edit to plug-ins or files required. One is near the beginning and the other almost at the end.
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Old 03 Sep 2010, 17:54
Ninos Ninos is offline
 
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Originally Posted by EquinoxWorld View Post
It is actually a lot easier than that my friend. It is in the template 8WR_media_NAVTAB . No edit to plug-ins or files required. One is near the beginning and the other almost at the end.
Thanks a lot for that, I found and removed the specified coding and can confirm it works! +rep really appreciated
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Old 03 Sep 2010, 17:55
EquinoxWorld EquinoxWorld is offline
 
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Originally Posted by Ninos View Post
Thanks a lot for that, I found and removed the specified coding and can confirm it works! +rep really appreciated
No problem Ninos . Thanks for the rep.
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Old 03 Sep 2010, 20:15
Ninos Ninos is offline
 
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By the way, on category view the thumbnails are meant to be 3 per row right?

Cause I only got 2 per row and it's not like I got a small layout either, should be enough room to find them and not overflow onto the next line.

If so, I'll PM someone my URL to look at it, if not I'd appreciate someone telling me how to list 3 per row.

Sorry for all the requests btw.
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Old 03 Sep 2010, 23:38
Jaxel Jaxel is offline
 
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Originally Posted by Ninos View Post
By the way, on category view the thumbnails are meant to be 3 per row right?

Cause I only got 2 per row and it's not like I got a small layout either, should be enough room to find them and not overflow onto the next line.

If so, I'll PM someone my URL to look at it, if not I'd appreciate someone telling me how to list 3 per row.

Sorry for all the requests btw.
This mod is setup by DEFAULT for forums with a width of 990 pixels. Unfortunately, the people who designed the styles of VB4 are retarded. They set the doc_margin setting to 35 pixels for left and right, so that no matter what, your browser throws out 70 pixels of width which could be used more constructively... Which means if you have your resolution set to 1024x768, you only have about 932 pixels of width for your website (1024-70-22(scroll bar)=932).

If you use a DYNAMIC WIDTH setting on your browser, I recommend you change this dumb default setting to something more sensible... like 5 instead of 35... If you use a FIXED WIDTH (I use 990), you should set these settings to "auto" instead of 35.
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Old 04 Sep 2010, 00:56
Ninos Ninos is offline
 
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Originally Posted by Jaxel View Post
If you use a DYNAMIC WIDTH setting on your browser, I recommend you change this dumb default setting to something more sensible... like 5 instead of 35... If you use a FIXED WIDTH (I use 990), you should set these settings to "auto" instead of 35.
I'm using a custom designed theme and I'm a pretty good judge on pixel margins etc (yes great achievement i know LOL) but I'm 100% sure I don't have a 35px margin on either side. The MAX it's gotta be is approx. 20px each side, and I'm either using a 980 or 990 fixed width.

Are those specifications still too big?

Thanks

EDIT: Looking back, that's a pretty dumb question. Of course the margins are still too big otherwise it would display fine. Would i simply be able to edit a CSS/Styling file relating to YOUR mod rather than my custom skin to get this work? If so it'd be great if you could give me some basic instructions. Thnaks
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Old 04 Sep 2010, 01:27
cevo cevo is offline
 
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I can't see the comment box below each video. How can I fix this ?
Even I have configured the permission correctly.

Last edited by cevo : 04 Sep 2010 at 02:58.
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