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[Ryan Kent]

I am just not sure the approach I am going to take as I can build the playback mechanism for the mp3 in two very different ways both which will have people that love it and hate it and I am trying to figure out which one would be better before I do anything.

Just wanted to offer a small comment. I am not sure if either of the two ways offers more flexibility in the types of files which can be played. The particular files I am working with now are .ogg files. If one of those paths offered that flexibility, and the other did not, well the one that did would have my vote

 

[EQnoble]

Well when I figure out how I will be doing it exactly I can tell you more but what I can say is that when I am sure of my direction , mp3 will be it's own tag, xmp3 will be for locally uploaded and hosted mp3 files, ogg and xogg would get their own tags as well...

mp3 would be used like

[mp3]file_name_no_extension[/mp3]

I already have something working as far as music goes but i feel it is not worthy to share yet...it will be soon. I kind of got sidetracked with streaming live video to the site and now that I got that working I will be back to the music front.

 

[Ryan Kent]

actually, that sounds like a limitation of the player.

If you used a better player, it would detect the format and play everything. For example, the HTML5 <audio> tag works nicely overall.

I will be happy with anything that works, but a [audio] tag would be superior to a tag that needed to be changed based on the format.

 

[EQnoble]

The choice of individual tags is my own I assure you..I can tell you why if you are interested but basically that is how I would do them...also my players interact....if i click play on one...every other player on the page..audio or video , http or rtmp , it doesn't matter all get stopped so the one I want to see or hear is the only one active. I have not figured out a way to do this outside of the scope of where I am comfortable.

Please post an example of what your talking about in the last sentence and I will see if I can make what you are looking for right quick.

 

[EQnoble]

[audio] tag would be superior to a tag that needed to be changed based on the format.

matter of fact ..upload an ogg file to your server and pm me a link...I think I have the html5 code working ....need an ogg file to test it...

 

[Ryan Kent]

This page is full of ogg files http://www.terapvp.com/wiki/music

A direct link to the first one is www.terapvp.com/data/audio/TeraMusic/ArtAmd_01/ArtAmb_01_0000124b.ogg

If you decide to use the HTML5 player, two issues I have noticed:

- The player offers a counter, which is great, except it shouldn't appear for an unplayed file. Notice the 0:00 bubble on each player?

- preload="none" is supposed to keep the audio files from loading prior to being played, but it apparently doesn't work. If you have a page with many audio files, the page load will be delayed.

 

[EQnoble]

you will need to rar or zip one of the files and give me a link I cannot retrieve them from your server.

 

[Ryan Kent]

you will need to rar or zip one of the files and give me a link I cannot retrieve them from your server.

I thought you were pro?!

If you are using IE the file should start downloading for you from the link. If you are using FF then the file will probably start to play depending on your settings. That is a direct link to the file and you can download it.

Firefox + Download helper is your friend You can download just about any media with it in a simple click.

I tried to upload it but this site doesn't accept .rar files, and a zip is too big. I'll find another way if needed, let me know.

 

[EQnoble]

I thought you were pro?!

I'll give you $10,000USD if you can quote me saying that anywhere. In fact you will see me call myself a noob...that you can quote.

If you are using IE the file should start downloading for you from the link. If you are using FF then the file will probably start to play depending on your settings. That is a direct link to the file and you can download it.

Firefox + Download helper is your friend You can download just about any media with it in a simple click.

I tried to upload it but this site doesn't accept .rar files, and a zip is too big. I'll find another way if needed, let me know.

I got it, it just took a very long time .....trust me I know how to download a file...the download manager took minutes to actually start transferring the file which is why I assumed it didn't work as I pretty much always have a lightning connection to whatever I connect to, that's all.

You can't ftp a rar archive to your server!?

 

[Ryan Kent]

I was completely teasing about being pro. As strange as it sounds, the idea of ftp'ing the rar to my server didn't occur to me. I was thinking you were having issues getting the .ogg file from the server that I would need to get the file to you another way.

 

[EQnoble]

ogg bbcode

You can modify this to only use a specific audio directory...I made it usable for ogg files hosted anywhere.

updated: 5/16/11 7:30pm EST

 

[Ryan Kent]

I tested it and have a problem.

It seems it will only allow one instance within a thread. If I type a thread then everything before the ogg file appears, but nothing after the off file appears.

For example:

Hello world
[ogg] path to file [/ogg]
goodbye world
[ogg] path to another file[/ogg]

The only thing that would appear from the above in a thread is Hello World and the first audio player. The words "goodbye world" and the second audio player never appear.

 

[EQnoble]

This thread has been updated

 

[Ryan Kent]

TY EQNoble! Test and works perfect.

I want to share a few changes I made to suit my needs:
- decreased the height from 80 to 30. This change removed a bunch of empty space.
- added preload="false". This allows the page to load faster. Everyone should have a good enough connection to play an audio file without buffering.
- removed the http:// prefix as I will often use this with files hosted locally, and I prefer the shorter path.

I did have one question about the player. Is there any way to disable the timer bubble for a file that isn't playing? All of the 0:00 bubbles really ruin the look. If you look at my test page I think you will see what I mean. http://www.terapvp.com/wiki/tera-music

 

[EQnoble]

I did this because I love South Park and because I can. For those of you that also enjoy here yah go...it is for clips hosted at Southparkstudios.com. Simply copy the clip id as shown highlighed in the image below and put in between
example

[sp]385878[sp/]

 

[EQnoble]

Hey again, any ideas on how how to add http://thechive.com/category/video/ ?

I may just have an idea....

It is kind of a pain in the butt to use for now (until I come up with a better way) but this should work for you.

Say at this page: http://thechive.com/2011/05/23/bikini-flashmobs-dare-i-say-the-future-video/ you will want to click on the share button

View attachment 15292
then you can click "copy code"

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if you paste it somewhere you see this:

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="437" height="288" id="viddler"><param name="movie" value="http://www.viddler.com/player/79afca83/" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="flashvars" value="fake=1"/><embed src="http://www.viddler.com/player/b8dae1a6/" width="437" height="288" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="always" allowFullScreen="true" flashvars="fake=1" name="viddler" ></embed></object>

the param name 'movie' has a value which is the actual video reference. So you would copy and paste the part I have made bold below but of any chive video embed link....
param name="movie" value="http://www.viddler.com/player/79afca83/
and then place that within [chive=79afca83][/chive] and with the included bbcode all should work.

I will be putting more effort in as far as customizing XF goes over the next couple of weeks as I have a break from some hectic things in my life before they get consuming again. Let me know if this will work for you.

 

[Mikey]

To use, [map="Derby UK"][/map].

Import via the BBCode Manager.

Made by request for someone on XenFans.

 

[AndreaMarucci]

Fantastic works Mikey!

 

[SchmitzIT]

Anybody else having an issue with the Table BB code by any chance? I imported the XML files from Brogan, and while tables generate just fine, they somehow end up taking up quite a bit of space.

See an example here.

 

[Trombones13]

Anybody else having an issue with the Table BB code by any chance? I imported the XML files from Brogan, and while tables generate just fine, they somehow end up taking up quite a bit of space.

See an example here.

It has to be an unbroken string or they get added. http://xenforo.com/community/threads/bb-code-manager-bb-code-xml-repository.8470/page-2#post-155394