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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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04-08-2009, 01:51 PM
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| works great! thank you!  |
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04-08-2009, 09:06 PM
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| Is there a way to add thumbnail like it does with YouTube? |
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04-08-2009, 10:57 PM
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| You would have to edit video_plus_main.php to add the code to insert more automatic thumbnails similar to the youtube feature. You would need to find a video host that creates static images for the videos. I'm not going to instruct users how to do this, so you will need to figure it out on your own. |
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04-09-2009, 02:09 AM
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| could anyone tell me whats the code for greektube.org. Although I have tried lots of combinations and used the tutorial/post cannot get it to work work...embed video with video plus. This site works with ids and would seem very straigt forward but cannot get it to work. Anybody greatly appreciated! |
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04-09-2009, 02:47 AM
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| Installed it, but when I click to play the movie, nothing happens. |
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04-09-2009, 04:11 AM
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| No fancy zoom is displayed. I don't know why... Here you can see what happens Uhaaa! |
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04-09-2009, 10:49 AM
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Check out this lightbox clone matrix to find another lightbox javascript effect to replace the jquery Fancybox effect. |
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04-09-2009, 02:14 PM
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| Thanks! I will try  Maybe the slide of the news is making this conflict |
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04-12-2009, 04:36 PM
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| is it possible to resize the pop up box? if so please tell me what file do i have to modify? thank you in advance!  |
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04-12-2009, 05:17 PM
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yoursite/modules/video_plus/templates/video_plus_index.tpl Code: <div id="video_pop" style='display:none;background:#000;'>
<div align="center">
<iframe src="{$my_base_url}{$my_pligg_base}/modules/video_plus/video_plus.php?id={$link_id}" frameborder='0' scrolling="no" width="720" height="420" ></iframe>
</div>
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