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The latest version of Video Plus will automatically embeds videos from popular video hosting sites onto your website. A thumbnail appears next to articles that submit a supported website. When a user clicks on that thumbnail it pops up an ajax box with an embedded video. The embedded video and thumbnail are automatically inserted into your post by analyzing the url submitted in Submit Step 1. This module makes it SUPER EASY to let your users post videos to your Pligg website. Since users do NOT have to paste in embed code at any point you are making it easier for them, and more secure for your site. If you are interested in adding additional video hosts to this module please read my second post which details how this module works. As mentioned in that post, not all video hosts are going to be compatible with this module. Please consider making a donation if you use this module on your website so that we can continue to provide free modules like this one. Our goal is to raise $500 for this module in a years time. You can use the Chipin widget to the left to make a donation. Keep in mind that we could have kept this module as a Pligg Pro shop item and sold it, but we were hoping that donations would cover the cost of developing this module. Why did I choose Lightview? Quite simply, it was probably the best option for displaying multimedia content in a lightbox. Most of the other choices were either limited in their features or had the same problem with audio not stopping when you closed the ajax box. There were some other choices that all cost a lot more to run them legimately on your site, but I think that $4 USD is a fair price for something that will enhance your site. I suggest you try it out before buying though just to make sure that it does indeed work and doesn't break your site if you are using other javascript on your web page. This includes websites using the Wistie category dropdown menu on IE6 which requires jQuery. If you are interested in trying this version out just grab the Video_Plus + Lightview file attached to this thread. I will not be providing any additional documentation than what is currently provided with the module since it is a commercial script that doesn't support me in any way. I suggest that you check out the documentation provided on the Lightview homepage for help. Please remember though that the original author is not responsible for supporting this Pligg module. Supported Video Hosts:
Installation Instructions:
Lightview Module version 0.2 or above This is included with the Video Plus download. Lightview is needed for the video popup javascript effect. If you want you can use another javascript library to popup the videos, but you will need to remove the requirement line from /modules/video_plus/video_plus_install.php and customize the /modules/video_plus/templates/video_plus_index.tpl file so that it fits your alternate javascript style. Other Notes: If a thumbnail-supported URL is entered into submit step 1, thumbnails should be automatically be displayed in your template. Youtube offers a total of 4 static images that can be used to insert into your template. We have assigned all 4 images as template variables that you can use in your link_summary.tpl or video_plus_index.tpl files. Below are examples of each of the template tags followed by a brief description.
    ---------------------- Examples: You can also take a look at the attached screenshots that demonstrate what an activated video popup looks like and what a story page looks like when a large Youtube thumbnail is displayed. Changelog: Version 1.2
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01-29-2010, 12:47 PM
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| is anyone using comedycentral videos, with this module? does the video play? I have tried direct input and the thumb shows....the screen pops up to play but nothing... it does however work with the other providers listed. I did not mean to get into an argument about this, but if you could read what i posted...about the videos not playing instead of seeing the words RSS and focusing on just the RSS part and not the rest of what i tried to explain.. anyways thanks  |
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01-29-2010, 12:49 PM
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I know you wrote it? and it has nothing to do with RSS feeds but does work together if the direct url is correct with rss to publish videos....is this correct? |
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02-01-2010, 10:53 PM
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| I am hoping someone can give me hand. I am using thestandard template on 1.0.3 and want to use the video_plus module. I noticed after installing that while the video_plus + lightview module works great, it disables the sub-levels in the nav menu. I tried using jsQuery/Fancybox and received all the same errors discussed here with IE/FireFox and Chrome. I tried updating the video_plus module to use ceebox instead to see if I could rectify some of the FancyBox issues. I modified the video_plus module slightly and created a new ceebox module based on the jQuery module. But alas, I am not a programmer and have something wrong. I can upload and install the modules fine. Thumbnails are displayed perfectly and when I click on the thumbnail the ceebox opens. Unfortunately, though the video never plays in the ceebox. It looks as if it wants to load the file, but it is pointing internally instead of following the link. Is there someone willing to look at what I've done so far and give me a hand. You can see the results at DewBob.com. Additionally I have attached a zip file of the two modules I updated/created. Thank you. |
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02-07-2010, 04:28 PM
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| I am not a programmer so i am not not taking responsibility if this script gives you error or some security threat. On some server vimeo thumbnails don't work and i have found fix for it. The problem is because some servers don't allow @file_get_contents($url), but this can be coded in another way trough curl (it have to be enabled on your server). So, in your modules\video_plus\video_plus_main.php replace: Code: elseif (preg_match('/\/www.vimeo.com\/([^&]+)/',$row['link_url'],$m)) {
//connect to vimeo to gather video info
$url = "http://vimeo.com/api/clip/{$m[1]}/php";
$contents = @file_get_contents($url);
$array = @unserialize(trim($contents));
//print_r($array); //This displays the whole array
$vars['smarty']->_vars["video_thumbnail"] = $array[0][thumbnail_medium];
$vars['smarty']->_vars["video_thumbnail_2"] = $array[0][thumbnail_small];
$vars['smarty']->_vars["video_thumbnail_3"] = $array[0][thumbnail_large];
$vars['smarty']->_vars["video_thumbnail_large"] = $array[0][thumbnail_large];
} elseif (preg_match('/\/vimeo.com\/([^&]+)/',$row['link_url'],$m)) {
//connect to vimeo to gather video info
$url = "http://vimeo.com/api/clip/{$m[1]}/php";
$contents = @file_get_contents($url);
$array = @unserialize(trim($contents));
//print_r($array); //This displays the whole array
$vars['smarty']->_vars["video_thumbnail"] = $array[0][thumbnail_medium];
$vars['smarty']->_vars["video_thumbnail_2"] = $array[0][thumbnail_small];
$vars['smarty']->_vars["video_thumbnail_3"] = $array[0][thumbnail_large];
$vars['smarty']->_vars["video_thumbnail_large"] = $array[0][thumbnail_large];
}
Code: elseif (preg_match('/\/www.vimeo.com\/([^&]+)/',$row['link_url'],$m)) {
$url = "http://vimeo.com/api/clip/{$m[1]}/php";
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
// grab URL and pass it to the browser
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$finaldata = unserialize($data);
$vars['smarty']->_vars["video_thumbnail"] = $finaldata[0][thumbnail_medium];
$vars['smarty']->_vars["video_thumbnail_2"] = $finaldata[0][thumbnail_small];
$vars['smarty']->_vars["video_thumbnail_3"] = $finaldata[0][thumbnail_large];
$vars['smarty']->_vars["video_thumbnail_large"] = $finaldata[0][thumbnail_large];
} elseif (preg_match('/\/vimeo.com\/([^&]+)/',$row['link_url'],$m)) {
//connect to vimeo to gather video info
$url = "http://vimeo.com/api/clip/{$m[1]}/php";
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
// grab URL and pass it to the browser
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$finaldata = unserialize($data);
$vars['smarty']->_vars["video_thumbnail"] = $finaldata[0][thumbnail_medium];
$vars['smarty']->_vars["video_thumbnail_2"] = $finaldata[0][thumbnail_small];
$vars['smarty']->_vars["video_thumbnail_3"] = $finaldata[0][thumbnail_large];
$vars['smarty']->_vars["video_thumbnail_large"] = $finaldata[0][thumbnail_large];
}
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02-12-2010, 04:00 PM
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| Updated module to include a couple adult hosts (Redtube and Keezmovies). Both are capable of displaying a thumbnail for the video. This module now supports 30 video websites. I also updated the Lightview version since it was getting a lot of downloads and I know that a lot of people will want to update to the latest core version of this module. Last edited by Yankidank; 02-12-2010 at 04:10 PM. |
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02-13-2010, 09:03 AM
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02-13-2010, 09:22 AM
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| First, thanks for this great module! One of our users submitted several links to cbsnews.com, but the video is not working. (e.g., see Olympic Luger Killed in Training Crash | Colivia). Is cbsnews.com integration working for other users here? No problems with YouTube. TIA |
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02-13-2010, 05:44 PM
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Code: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6205091n Pligg needs a video ID in the video site URL, that ID needs to be used in the embed code. For example Youtube URLs have something like this in them: Code: watch?v=5g9aVwRenVg Unfortunately CBS News seems to now use 2 video IDs in their embed code, one of which (the most important) is not found in the URL so we can't use it with this module. Below is an example URL and Video IDs used by CBS. Code: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6202108n Code: id=6202108n Code: videoId=50083570 Quote:
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02-15-2010, 04:22 AM
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| Thanks for the fast and detailled answer. I've also tried Vimeo and the thumbnail doesn't work. Do I need to configure something first for Vimeo? See http://www.colivia.de/story.php?title=dubai-sky |
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02-15-2010, 11:28 AM
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| I just woke up, and decided to install this, so I may have done something wrong. I uploaded the directories, making sure to overwrite everything. The Module Management page still says v0.9, instead of v1.1. Thanks |
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