[videobox] VideoBox - The successor of yw_youtube

Hey guys!

Right on time for Easter I follow up on my promises I made in tickets or here on the board :)

VideoBox is available now!
The successor of yw_youtube does not limit itself to content elements only but provides a lot more:

• Video embedding in news[/*:m:l5cff0yv]
• Video embedding in events[/*:m:l5cff0yv]
• Video embedding as a content element[/*:m:l5cff0yv]
• Video embedding with InsertTags[/*:m:l5cff0yv]
• Permission management[/*:m:l5cff0yv]
• Settings for every archive[/*:m:l5cff0yv]
• a central API for other videotypes for the future[/*:m:l5cff0yv]
• ...[/*:m:l5cff0yv]

Manual
I took the time to write a manual.
You can find it here: http://dev.typolight-forge.org/proje...files/videobox

Trouble ticket system
A big thank-you goes out to lindesbs for the free-of-charge plattform for developers!
http://dev.typolight-forge.org/projects/show/videobox

yw_youtube
The further development of yw_youtube has been stopped immediately.

Extension Repository
http://www.typolight.org/extension-l.../videobox.html

Donations
It can be told again and again and mostly they are missing. But anyways:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/websc...=EPYWRQC4M4VS6
Thank you!

For the native English speakers
You may find a little time to review my manual or the module itself and propose language corrections either here or in a ticket. I hope it's not too bad :)

Looking forward to reading your feedback! :)

Happy Easter everyone!

Wow -- looks spectacular. Looking forward to trying it out, man!

Thanks again.

Very good :)

Look the english traslation, are present the old label eg. yw_youtube_border and not youtube_border

:)

Oh, shame on me - forgot to doublecheck that one :)

There's a new build online - thanks for the hint ;)

The greatest has become even greater! Nice work Toflar!

I've just translated it to Swedish and I found something that is common for Eng, Ger and Swe:

- Inside a video archive (the list of added videos) you have the traditional icons for edit, copy, move, delete and info. It seems that the tooltip (mouseover) text for them are hardcoded to English.
- In the same place, the green plus button used to add a video doesn't have any text label to the right of the button, nor does it have a tooltip (mouseover) text.

Otherwise it's looking really really great! :P

BR, Matz

Hi Matz

Thanks for your feedback :)

This is true - it's not hardcoded, it's just missing the corresponding language files.
Took note of that for the first RC version: http://dev.typolight-forge.org/issues/show/640

Thanks for reporting :)

Great! Thanks!

BR, Matz

Just published release candidate 1 :)

Thanks for translating and supporting the project!

For developers: There's a SVN repository available now: http://dev.typolight-forge.org/reposito ... w/videobox

Really nice work Toflar!

This extension has real great potiential. Combined with the newsmodule you could basicly create a web-tv application i no-time!

Theres is one thing thats bothering me though and that dont make sense to me as a designer. And that is that you set the width and hieght of the movies on archive level rather on an individual level.

My suggestion is that you if you use the CE emlement you should be able to set the width/height when you create the element. As for the news you should be able to set one size for the newslists and another for the newsreader. Maby this could be done by adding width and height parameters to the insert_tag some how so that I can set differnt width and height when I edit the templates.

Otherwise this is a really great extension! Nice Work!

Best regards,
Mike

Hi Mike

Thank you :)

I know that at first sight it doesn't really make sense. However, I think it's better the way it is right now.
If you have been using yw_youtube before, you know that I was aiming at this approach there.

Let me explain, why I will not change my mind:

• Let's assume I added this additional fields to choose height and width for a video, how long would it take until someone else requests the other fields like color, border etc. to be added to the news, events and CE palettes?[/*:m:3nafsb4g]
• VideoBox has been built in a way other devs can add new video types. Imagine we have 5 different video types in the future and every dev adds their options to the news, events and CE palettes? You'd better buy each and every customer a mouse with a mousewheel :)[/*:m:3nafsb4g]
• InsertTags couldn't be standardized anymore. Size? Okay, every video needs height and width but people are going to request other parameters and soon we may have more than 10 InsertTags, which doesn't meet my vision of the module and usability.[/*:m:3nafsb4g]
• And last but not least: It's possible to add as many archives you want to. You can create one with the title "my archive for the news, 500 x 700" and another one entitled "my archive for the CE 100 x 200" for example. It's true, you will maybe need to add the video 5 times if you want to display it in 5 different ways but this way you also make sure that your editors are unable to add videos inconsistently. See what I'm trying to tell you? :)[/*:m:3nafsb4g]

Well, this is the way I think and believe is the best - that's why I implemented it this way. Others may think it's better the other way around...

Thank you for your honest feedback :)

Hi Toflar

I just create new "New VideoBox archive" with no problem. But when I try add new "New video" to this archiwe I receive this error:

Code:

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Fatal error: Cannot access empty property in /home/qrczak/public_html/domain/system/libraries/System.php on line 143

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TL 2.8.3
Videobox installed by "Extension catalog"

Hey qrcak!

Hmm, but that's certainly not the only error being thrown?

Do you have more details? :)

Actually there is no more details, unfortunately. There's only blank screen and this error "Fatal error: Cannot access...", no other errors messages.
In TL logs there is e.g. "A new entry in table "tl_videobox" has been created (ID: 12)" but there's no data in this table inside data base. Of course I know, probably it's too less details to say what happen.
Maybe (it's only my thoughts) there is some conflict with other extension. I don't know.

I think, there something wrong with this installation or extension conflict. I try your extension in other installation on this same server and works fine.

Well, I'm sorry. I can't help you.

There's an attempt to access an empty property in System::import() but this is a method called in the majority of all extensions. So it might well be that it's not my extension :)

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Originally Posted by Toflar

Well, I'm sorry. I can't help you.

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That's OK Toflar. Actually installation where the error appear is my test installation and there I wanted to try your extension. Your extension don't work on my test installation but works on my production one. So that's good news for me! :D
Anyway thanks for this modul.

hey guys,

I was wondering whether anyone has already tested videobox with Contao 2.9 RC1?
If so, please let me know so that I can adjust the compatibility, because I haven't got any 2.9 installation with videobox yet :)

Appreciate your support! Thank you! 8-)

I've just tested it in my default "Music Academy" 2.9 RC1. Everything looked just fine until I was going to change the video settings for a video archive. Clicking the "Edit settings..." icon (the film strip) in the video archives list just brings up the home page (the one you get to first when entering back end).
It works fine in my 2.8.3 setup of "Music Academy" so, it might be an issue with the extension.

I'll send you a guest account in a PM so that you can test it yourself.

No, thanks :) I know what the problem is there :)

Will fix this and provide a new version of videobox by the 4th of July at the latest, so you can use it for your customers :)

Thank you very much!

Hey SuperMatz

I've attached the stable that should work for Contao 2.9 now :)
Could you confirm that one please?

Thanks a lot for your assistance :)

Hi,

Nope... The same problem...

BR,

Matz

Hmm, sure you have overridden all the files?

Tested locally and workes fine for me... :roll:

Well, yes... FTP right over the old files.
Could it be

Code:

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$strRedirectPath = version_compare(VERSION.'.'.BUILD, '2.9.0', '<') ? 'typolight' : 'contao';

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since i'm usin 2.9.RC1?

Answer myself... Yes, I changed my "constants.php" build to 0 and hey presto! :)
Everything is fine as long as it's the upcoming release version.

Ah, of course :)

I'm running the latest SVN version locally, that's why :D
Perfect :)

So it should work for the older TYPOlight versions and the new Contao version now :)
Thanks for testing!

My pleasure! Good night! :)

Had the same problem today - maybe someone is still interessted...
After hours of research I found out, that the problem is caused by zz_breadcrumb, deactivating it in the settings solves the problem.
Until now I don't know really why, maybe it overrides (can't imagine that) something, because of being loaded after videobox.

If there is a ticketsystem for videobox: bug- /feature request!

Note that YouTube will be switching to an iFrame system as their default player so it can auto-detect HTML5 or FLASH automatically.

http://www.youtube.com/html5

Hey Toflar,

first of all a big thank you for your extension. Wouldn`t it be nice to include Vimeo too?

Also, sadly I've had some problems inserting videos from my archive into news under Contao 2.9.1. Although the archive shows up in the news-module (backend) there wont be any video in the news itself (frontend).

Greets,
faximile

Hi Toflar, if I uncheck the Show related videos checkbox on VideoBox settings, it still displays the related videos menu at the end of the playback.
I made a var_dump on videobox_youtube.tpl and noticed that the video link lacks the related video parameter (rel - which, if not set, tells the player to display the related video menu since its value is 1 by default).
Is there any way to hide the related videos menu other than by editing the module code?

Keep up with the good work, VideoBox is a great extension :)

Thanks

Toflar,

Will videobox offer support for HTML5 video (for Vimeo and YouTube?).

Thanks!

-Justin-

Any idea why in FE i can't see video?
In firebug console tab it says error: Browser not defined...line 154 which is : if (!Browser.Plugins.Flash.version > 0) ...
I have turned on javascript :)

Regards.

again this freaking mootools... :evil:

Sorry, didn't get any emails notifying me about the new posts :D

Released 1.0.1 a couple of days ago and fixed some bugs :)
The HTML5 feature you requested can easily be "added" if you remove the flash detection in the template "if (!Browser.Plugins.Flash.version > 0)" :)

I don't know whether the youtube feature is really reliable. Do you think I should remove this feature completely?

Toflar,

Thanks for sharing the change to make video play well in HTML5. As for YouTube support, I definitely think it's important to keep it. So many videos are shared everyday and an overwhelming percentage of them are from YouTube.

I hope you are able to make any adjustments necessary because this extension is brilliant alongside HTML5! Thanks again!

-Justin-

Hi
I think I've found two small bugs

1- you can not use superscript in the title
2- The option showinfo is true at default.
The line 98 of youtube.php must be changed in this way

Code:

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$this->strYoutubeUrl .= (strlen($arrDBData['youtube_showinfo'])) ? '&showinfo=1' : '&showinfo=0';

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hi
videobox doesn't work for me
i've contao 2.9.1 and videobox 1.0.1 v3
everything seems ok: i add archive, add youtube id, insert into news, but when i access frontend nothing appears. if i see html source code of front end page, it is without any youtube/video code/script/tag
thanks

Read the user guide...that's why I wrote it.

i did

http://contao-forge.org/attachments/dow ... manual.pdf

i insert

Code:

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{?{VIDEOBOX_NEWS::<?php echo $this->id; ?>}}

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in my news_full.tpl, but in front end the news show

{?{videobox_news::114}}

what's wrong?

Never copy {{ or }} because some OS inject some kind of invisible symbols between the brackets ;) always write them on your own :)

thanks!

it works now with Chrome, but in Firefox 3.6.13 + Ubuntu 10.04 doesn't, but it can be my problem

Hi
I'm new to Contao ... I installed Videobox .. but not work for me = (

insert

{{VIDEOBOX_NEWS: <? php echo $ this-> id;?>}}

in news_full.tpl

but only shows me "Object id # 73"

can you help me please :(

Quote:

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{{VIDEOBOX_NEWS: <? php echo $ this-> id;?>}}

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VIDEOBOX_NEWS:: - not VIDEOBOX_NEWS: maybe

does not work in any way =( .... Help me please :(

Do you use a php version lower than 5.2? Then this error might occur because the __toString() method doesn't get called automatically afaik.

PHP 5.2+ is a requirement of Contao itself though so I don't consider this to be a bug :)

Hi,
I've installed VideoBox and also the Vimeo addon, because Vimeo videos are what i want to integrate on my website (and not YouTube).
It works fine with YouTube videos, but not with Vimeo : nothing appears, nevertheless I have edited settings, entered the right id, and so on...
Have you had feedbacks for the Vimeo addon (troubles) ?
Thanks

(Contao 2.9.4, VideoBox last version, FireFox).

Hi
I've installed videobox, and I've a problem with menu, that is under video
I think this is a problem similar to flash, where I solve using wmode=transparent
but in videobox how I fix this problem?
thanks

Hello,

I've installed Videobox, added youtube videos, set up a video list page, linked it to a video reader page.

My question is how do i do to display the video thumbnails instead of the full video in the video list page ?

Is there someting to do in the mod_videobox_list.html5 template ?

thanks

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I've installed Videobox, added youtube videos, set up a video list page, linked it to a video reader page.

My question is how do i do to display the video thumbnails instead of the full video in the video list page ?

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This is what I am wondering also.
The video's look exactly the same in the list and reader. Why bother then making a list?
usually this is with thumbnails in the list, followed by a larger version in the reader.

is there also a way to just play the video's in the list? I have autoplay turned off (bit noisy with more than one video) but when clicking play you get redirected to whatever page assigned in the videobox_list

thanks heaps