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Media Center

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MediaCenter-Plugin
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Autor GodMod
Current Version 0.0.1
Latest Stable Version -

Contents

About this Plugin

With this plugin, you now have a video section in your EQDKP. Links can be added to videos, web space via FTP to the uploaded videos can be imported on platforms such as Youtube, and with the Youtube uploader can upload videos from your hard drive directly to YouTube without having to leave the EQDKP.

Installation

Install the contents of the archive in the plugins/folder of your EQdkp. Then administer the plugin as usual from the administration area. The plugin also has a portal module ("Video of the moment will be supplied"), which after installing the plug-in can be Enabled in the portal modules.

Update

Important: before update always make a backup of the files via FTP and database!

After the backup just overwrite the new files over the old ones in the folder .. / plugins / media center / and go to the administration page of the plugin. If a database update is necessary, you will see a reference to this. Simply follow the instructions. Specific notes on specific updates will be posted here in the WIKI. See below.

Rights

Currently used IDs: 8100 - 8105

Admin Rights

Manage Videos

With this law, an administrator can unlock videos, edit, delete, and manage categories.

Configuration Settings

With this right an admin can change various settings of the plugin.

Statistics

With this right an admin can view the download statistics.

Import

An administrator can import videos that were uploaded by FTP to the upload folder of the plugin.

User Rights

Watch

Users have this right, they can watch videos.

Upload

With this right a user can upload videos in the Media Center.

Pages in the Admin Area

Categories

Bearbeitung von Kategorien

Here, the entire category management is taking place. You can edit or delete an existing category, as well as create new ones.

When you delete categories all the videos in this category are automatically deleted as well, so before deleting non-empty categories, be warned. If you wanted to keep the videos, in video management simply move them to a different category.

So that videos can be recorded, they must be assigned at least 1 category.

Video Management

Videoverwaltung

Here are all the videos are stored in the appropriate categories, and can be deleted, edited and added. You can be erase simultaneously several videos by the appropriate checkboxes ... Delete "is" selected. With the appropriate links / checkboxes a whole category or all downloads can be selected.

If a video is reported or there are unlock video clips, they will be displayed at the top of this page.

Statistics

Statistiken

Here you will see graphically the statistics on how often what the video was viewed. You can choose overall, categories and individual files. You can veiw by one years, monthly and weekly views.

Import

The Imported videos can be imported into the FTP folder / ... / downloads / videos uploaded / "in the plugin. At the moment, only files with the extensions to flv, wma and wmv are imported. Listed Only those videos, the format of the above are equal and are not yet available in the database. Use the checkboxes of the files easily, then enter the desired name and description of the download, select the category and import.

Settings

User Video may only rate once

When activated, users have only one vote per video available.

New Videos must be activated by Admin

When videos require approval to join, the admin is notified by a tooltip. The Activations can be done via the Video Management. The administrator has the ability to watch these videos, while normal user videos that are not released yet unable to watch. This also prevents illegal content from being displayed on your board.

Admin no e-mail with their stated video

This can be switched off so that admin does not receive an email when a video was announced.

Allow Comments

To get feedback on the video and is available next to the rating system and the annotation system. This can either be activated or deactivated.

Show link in tab

With this function, a link is created right in the tab above the Media Center. This link can be left adjusted in the plus-Settings->.

Videos per page

Here you can set how many videos to appear per page, for example, when searching or in the categories.

Default View

In the category list the presentation of the videos can be changed between "Pictures" and "list". With this function, the default view can be selected.

Enable Statistics

This enables the statistics, where her total number of downloads / within the category / for a single file gets shown graphically.

Statistical data delete after X days

This does not incur too much data, legacy data will be automatically deleted after x days. Blank Field means that the function is not activated.

Notification of plugin updates

When a new version of the download plug-ins you will be notified. Enabling this feature is strongly recommended, since not only updates with new features to come, and removing any errors, but also serve to safety!

Database update forcing

If you use an unfinished version that you have to manually force a database update.

External Videos

You have entered the following options for a video in the Media Center:

External Link

Hinzufügen eines neuen Videos

An external link simply means a link to a video on a video platform. Just copy the URL in the address bar of your browser. The following video platforms are supported:

   * Youtube (thumbnails and video length will be automatically retrieved)
   * MyVideo (thumbnails and video length will be automatically retrieved)
   * Sevenload (preview images are automatically pulled from)
   * Dailymotion (preview images are automatically pulled from)
   * Google Video
   * Clipfish
   * Metacafe
   * StreetFire
   * WeGame 

Youtube Upload

In the second tab you will find the Youtube uploader. Thus it is not always your Youtube-Username you must reenter it, you'll find at your account settings, the Media Center area, where you can save your username. Your Youtube password is not stored in EQDKP and transmitting encrypted to Youtube and solely used for authentication. Now fill in all required fields and click Next. If the login was successful, then a selection window appears on the file. Simply select a file and submit it. Close the window until the message says that the upload was successful. The video is then entered into the Media Center, however, not all information such as thumbnail and duration available as Youtube must unlock the video first. Once that has taken place, the media center will try to retrieve the data.

Importing Video

See "Import" in the admin pages.

Embedding Video in the News

You can embed videos from the Media Center in the news, adding the following uses BB-code:

[video]ID[/video]

The ID of the video you get from the URL, for example plugins / mediacenter / file.php? Id = 16 => id = 16

Convert Videos

As has become as flv format for web video I did because it is small and cross-browser than the Windows formats, here are some tips for converting from wmv to flv: http://www.digital-web.com/articles/the_rise_of_flash_video_part_3/

Support

For support please ask in the forum in this area:

Deutscher Plugin-Bereich

English Plugin-Forum

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Donations

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Donors will receive priority support.

Licensing

This plugin is released under the Creative Commons: Namensnennung-Keine kommerzielle Nutzung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 3.0 Unported